On 01:11 am, ssteinerx@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:54 PM, exarkun@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
As far as I can tell, these problems are due solely to the quality of trac. There is no indication that they will disappear through only an improvement of the hardware the site is hosted on (unless we consider a really amazing improvement, something on the order of 10x faster CPU and disk than what we have now, a 3GHz P4 and contemporary disks).
Not to be overly blunt, but there are other trac installations running on far less capable hardware that don't suck anywhere near as hard. That's not to say trac is great, but it isn't near this bad in many, many other places.
Do you know roughly how much traffic any of those installations deal with? We do around 50k hits per day, which is basically maxing out our hardware. I have the sense that most trac sites don't handle this much traffic.
I don't know anything about the history of this particular installation, what else is running on the server etc. but I don't think it's trac as trac. It may be trac as installed in this particular situation, with whatever historical mutilations have been performed on it, with the particular versions of this and that.
Dunno, just trying to find a way to help with my very, very limited time.
Several people have spent non-trivial amounts of time looking at this. I'm not sure what improvements can be made with only limited additional input. Do you know of any relevant resources which we may have overlooked? Are there guides to running a working trac site? Tips about special indexes to create in the database? Something? Jean-Paul