Site speeds

  • We had an issue with background services between march 10th and 15th or there about. This meant the payment services were not linking to automatic upgrades. If you paid for premium membership and are still seeing ads please let me know and the email you used against PayPal and I cam manually verify and upgrade your account.

Dan

Kim Jong Dan
Staff member
Administrator
Tipping Member
Hi all,

I have added some cacheing to the site to see if this speeds things up.

The advertising display still holds things up and slows things down a bit and I will be looking at various ways to speed this up going forward.

Can everyone tell me if they notice any speed increases?

I am going to try a different system next week or tomorrow to see how that goes as well and decide which is better.

Based on some very quick bench marking, the speed of 1000 calls to the site is more than halved in actual response time.

Dan
 
Daniel said:
Hi all,

I have added some cacheing to the site to see if this speeds things up.

The advertising display still holds things up and slows things down a bit and I will be looking at various ways to speed this up going forward.

Can everyone tell me if they notice any speed increases?

I am going to try a different system next week or tomorrow to see how that goes as well and decide which is better.

Based on some very quick bench marking, the speed of 1000 calls to the site is more than halved in actual response time.

Dan

Its moving as quick as jorge will be tonight, id like to say snake but, mmm me thinks not.
 
Oh if there are any geeks interested I can share the benchmarking results later
 
Linux allows for real benchmarking of x amount of requesta much better than a ping
 
Well obviously :rolleyes:

But saying ping me is better than some non nerd human speak request-o-tron.


Sheesh. :cool::D:p:angel::idea::D
 
Awesome news. I will still try out xCache next week to see if that helps. I need to expand the memory because the cache size is set to 32 which is the current maximum I have spare RAM sitting there not being utilized so I will snatch some of that and increase the cache size
 
Please ignore the few minor downtimes this morning just adding some tuning parameters to the database server to speed it up a little and adding query caching
 
Daniel said:
Please ignore the few minor downtimes this morning just adding some tuning parameters to the database server to speed it up a little and adding query caching

Okay, then you won't have to worry about doing anything about this then:

SilvertailsForumFault-Friday946am29Mar13.jpg


:)
 
:)

no that is part of me restarting the database server
 
Right just made hopefully a final tweak for the day and upped the cache limit, I had to restart the services so all the caches will start to be rebuilt as the day goes on the site will speed up more and more
 
I am on call at work and got called in for cases that should not have been forwarded to me, so may as well do a few things here before heading out for a few hours
 
just for the geeks

this is benchmark taken yesterday when caching was only just enabled

Code:
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking forums.silvertails.net (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Completed 400 requests
Completed 500 requests
Completed 600 requests
Completed 700 requests
Completed 800 requests
Completed 900 requests
Finished 1000 requests


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.24
Server Hostname:        forums.silvertails.net
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        65363 bytes

Concurrency Level:      2
Time taken for tests:   44.475438 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        868
   (Connect: 0, Length: 868, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      65959616 bytes
HTML transferred:       65323616 bytes
Requests per second:    22.48 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       88.951 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       44.475 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          1448.28 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:    81   88   6.4     87     158
Waiting:       73   81   6.1     80     150
Total:         81   88   6.4     87     158

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     87
  66%     89
  75%     90
  80%     91
  90%     96
  95%     98
  98%    105
  99%    113
 100%    158 (longest request)
 

Members online

Latest posts

Team P W L PD Pts
3 3 0 48 6
4 3 1 28 6
3 2 1 10 6
4 2 2 39 4
3 2 1 28 4
3 2 1 15 4
3 2 1 14 4
2 1 1 13 4
2 1 1 6 4
3 2 1 -3 4
3 1 2 0 2
3 1 2 -5 2
3 1 2 -15 2
3 1 2 -22 2
3 1 2 -36 2
2 0 2 -56 2
3 0 3 -64 0
Back
Top Bottom