performance

[downtheroad]

I have two articles on my website and the abstracts are slow to load. Is there some indexing I need to do in the database or something else to address the performance?

dr

[jmacgreg]

Hi dr,

Try searching the forum for performance issues -- there are a great many variables leading to slow performance, typically server-side. You don't have to worry about indexing in this case.

Cheers,
James

[asmecher]

Hi downtheroad,

See also the "debug" and "show_stats" options in config.inc.php to help debug performance issues.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[downtheroad]

Thanks... Note that if you elect to change config.inc.php, make sure to use the copy from your server, as the file's contents are altered during installation.

dr

[downtheroad]

I turned stats on. From other posts on the forum I only found one concrete change to make, which was to set web_cache on. I have only two articles uploaded.
To bring up an abstract I see Page generated in: 1.6456s among several tries, with values more typically around .9 seconds (though some also get up in the 1.5s range). Performance on our server is otherwise lightning fast.. Is this good ojs performance, or are there other things I need to do?

dr

[asmecher]

Hi dr,

That's quite slow -- unfortunately there isn't a great set of debugging tools for PHP, but I'd suggest stepping through the code to find out where the slowdown is by adding the following snippet at various parts in the processing (which will, of course, temporarily break the request):

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die('Time: ' . (Core::microtime() - Registry::get('system.debug.startTime')));

If you can isolate a piece of the code that's taking an unusual amount of time to complete, that'll help.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[downtheroad]

Hi Alec,

As I would only be guessing at the internals, I wonder if there are logical places you could point to for placement of the breaks.

dr

[asmecher]

Hi dr,

I'd start in the "view" function in pages/article/ArticleHandler.inc.php; it's responsible for handling this request.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team