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Re: [mv] Slow Revisited
At 04:06 PM 11/13/1999 , you wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from "Harry Patterson"
><harry@visiontm.com> ******
>
>Hi All,
>
>I've read all the pertinent documentation I could find including the FAQ,
>the Reference pages and about 150 messages trying to solve my speed problem
>with MiniVend. I've cut the response time on the demo from 50 seconds to
>display the index page down to 20 seconds, but that is still unacceptable
>and not close to the 3-5 seconds the demo takes at minivend.com. The best
>clue I have is that the system seems to be using swap excessively even with
>128 MB, but I can't determine why. There aren't many processes running and
>the hard drive is not working hard except when MiniVend is used during the
>demo. Anyone have any clues as to why or what might be causing this and some
>additional steps I can try to reduce this time?
You could start with your file system. I've got all web/minivend
stuff operating on a separate drive, isolated from the OS.
Page and Search Caching helps a lot. (basically, an 'on' or 'off'
directive in your config)
Building an index of your products for fast binary search helps
greatly, especially if you find the best field to build the index
by. (Personally, I used the first/code field, as most of my access is by
item code.)
Lastly, using efficient minivend scripting/perl coding can shave
some seconds. It is a challenge sometimes to develop code to achieve a
complex task (especially when it is not found in examples or the demo -
such as 'shoppers who bought X also bought Y'...) however, it is more of
challenge to make that code efficient and faster.
You've got a perfectly capable machine, it should not take 20
seconds to display ANY page.
>New Install on:
>
>FreeBSD 2.2.5
>Pentium II 233
>128 MB RAM
>MiniVend 3.14.3
>Perl5
>
>Thanks,
>
>Harry Patterson
>
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