[Moin-user] need server-busting test

[Rick Vanderveer]

I'm with Marcin on this one.  I have a wiki-farm of a few thousand pages
that's used for internal documentation at my company.  My server is running
on an old Windows XP box, using Apache2, FastCGI, and Python 2.5.1 and quite
frankly I can't image it being any faster than it already is.  Pages, even
ones full of images, simply pop.   The only time we ran into a so-called
"slow" page was one we made that had about a dozen <<fullsearch()>>
functions on a single page (took about 4~5 seconds to process). We changed
it to <<fullsearchcached()>> and even that problem disappeared.
When I've monitored it, the CPU and networking barely blip during regular
usage.  And RAM-usage always remains about the same. Putting it on a faster
box would just be a waste of hardware!  :-)
Obviously not what you want to hear, but I would second that opinion that
your IT folks should pull it into a virtual machine.  I've been seriously
considering doing that myself.  There's really no reason not to, and yet
there are plenty of reasons to do it.  Your virtual server may have half the
bandwidth & CPU, but you may find that you don't even need all of it.

-Rick



On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Marcin Kasperski <
Marcin.Kasperski at softax.com.pl> wrote:

> > I have 5 or 6 wikis hosted on this server.  Generally, they don't get
> > a lot of traffic, but that could be arranged.
> >
> > Can anybody think of some set of wiki operations that would overload
> > 4GB of memory?
>
> I am successfully running some public moinmoin wiki on virtual server
> set to 64MB RAM (the machine runs standalone moin proxied by
> nginx). Works without any problems (under small load, few edits and at
> most a few thousands of wikipage reads a day - but nevertheless).
>
> So maybe do not exaggerate?
>
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