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Re: [mv] Optimizing a catalog
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:02:43AM -0600, Bill wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from "Bill" <bill@webteam.net> ******
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a single catalog that is experiencing about 20-40,000 page views a
> day. I'm running MV3.12 on a Digital Alpha with 512 MB of RAM. I use mySQL
> and file based sessions.
>
> I was wondering if anyone out there has any recommendations for optimizing
> my catalog, my server has a load averaging 4-5 at peak hours and many
> customers are receiving Error Messages because the Minivend server can
> handle the number of requests (I'm not blaming Minivend, I know I need to do
> some work to make things run more efficiently). I currently have MaxServers
> set to 15, Hammerlock to 120, Housekeeping to 15, and PID check to 300.
A few suggestions...
1) the obvious... another server with a transparent switchover.. I can't think
what they call it...
2) take your catalog out of minivend and only use the order process. If
you switched to C or mod_perl you'd get much better perfomance, and I'm
sure the catalog gets hit more than the order section.
3) are you doing static pages at all? Make your process as static as possible.
4) I believe mv can cache pages... find some that don't change and cache them.
I'm sure there are more ways... but probably moving your catalog out of
MV is the easier one/cheaper one that will get results. Depends on how
much mv code you really use in the catalog. We use very little, and have
been toying with the idea ourselves. We already have a way of storing the
number of items ordered in a cookie so we can use a complete order tag in
a non minivend page. using C or fast cgi or some mod_perl piece would
probably bring your load down a lot and serve pages out faster.
- Ant
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Anthony Ball ant@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039
tel:1.207.657.5078 fax:1.207.657.5048 http://www.maine.com/
