Re: [Phpwiki-talk] sudden, strange wiki slowdown

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

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At 10:36 22/01/2002, Geoffrey L. Wright wrote:
>Ack!
>
>Apologies for that last message.  Inadvertently hit the send key before the
>proper time.  Not a particularly eloquent first post to the list...

At least it was short!



>Now on to my little issue:
>
>I'm a recent convert to PhpWiki.  We just set up 1.2.2 at work, and in a few
>short weeks it's become indispensable.
>
>I'm now in process of setting up PhpWiki on my personal domain using 1.3.2.
>  I installed it several nights ago and it went w/out a hitch.  Install
>process was nice, easy and well-documented.
>
>But mid-today I started noticing a bit 'o strange lag every time I accessed
>the wiki.  Basicly, page loads now take 3 or 4 seconds, whereas before they
>we quite quick.  If you're interested, you can witness the effect first
>hand at:
>http://www.northernwastes.org

Hmmm .. looks OK to me - nice and fast



>Here are several useful things to know.
>
>1 - I host several other domains on this machine.  Everything else seems
>healthy.
>
>2 - I run SquirrelMail (http://squirrelmail.sourceforge.net), and it too
>seems to be functioning properly.  So nothing seems _grossly_ wrong w/my PHP
>setup.
>
>3 - I'm using MySQL as the back-end.
>
>4 - Neither MySQL, Apache nor PhpWiki are reporting any errors.
>
>5 - Upgrading to the most recent nightly snap doesn't change the problem for
>better or worse.  (Although I really dig the OS X theme...)
>
>6 - Backing up the wiki, then nuking the database, then rebuilding it
>doesn't change anything.  A brand-spankin' new wiki has the same problem.
>
>7 - I'm running Debian/Woody.  apache-ssl, php4, php4-mysql, php4-pear and
>mysql-server are all apt-installed.
>
>8 - I've reinstalled the PhpWiki code and reconfigured the index.php file
>several times to make sure I haven't kludged anything there.
>
>9 - I can't think of a damned thing that I've changed on the box before the
>problem started to occur.  I don't _think_ I upgraded any related packages.
>  (or any packages at all, for that matter...)
>
>Any thoughts or constructive advice?
>


Is it *always* slow?  Or just sometimes?  Do the other domains involve 
MySQL access?

Is PHP running as a cgi or as an Apache module?

Im a bit stumped really - just trying to think of some things to 
explore.  Others may have a better idea (when they wake up)!


>Many thanks,
>
>
>//glw

Lawrence Akka