Re: [Phpwiki-talk] phpwiki slow?

[Joby W. <joby@u.washington.edu>]

LS wrote:
>     I just installed phpwiki-1.3.3 from CVS on my RH7.3 Linux server running
> Apache/2.0.40 (Unix) PHP/4.3.0-dev and MySQL4.0a. I host a number of small PHP
> sites and they all respond very quickly, despite the server being a P166 with 92MB
> RAM, but for some reason PHPWiki takes about 1.4 seconds to render typical pages.
> RecentChanges takes nearly 7 seconds.

I don't know if anyone has tested Apache 2.0/PHP 4.3 with phpwiki.  But 
your server is most likely the issue.  A P166 with 92MB is really lite 
to run phpwiki.  Phpwiki is a pretty big app.  Every page access 
requires the loading of many (10+) php files, and then the content of 
the page must be parsed as well.  This is probably competing with your 
MySQL database to be in memory.  Thus when the php parser is activated 
your MySQL database is getting dumped to swap.  And when php makes MySQL 
calls, MySQL is brought back to memory and the php/apache process is 
dumped to swap.  etc...

This would indicate a need for a new server. Perhaps you can keep 
apache/php/phpwiki on your P166/92MB, but stick MySQL on another old 
computer -- though this introduces network latency...

jbw