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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Andera
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:39 AM
> To: 'FlexWiki Users Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Flexwiki-users] Performance analysis of 25000 pages
>
> > OK.  I finally got the spreadsheet working and have results.  Below
> is
> > the data based on a run from the build before the most recent.  I'll
> > have to go get the latest build this week and rerun overnight to
> > generate data but the analysis will be very very fast since I can now
> > just dump log file records into the spreadsheet and get the data
> below.
>
> Very cool! I really like the analysis - I think you just set the gold
> standard for comparison tests.

When I actually get time to devote to things I'm usually happy with the 
results. :-)  I'm glad you liked it.

The one thing that concerns me about the underlying data is that the iterations 
run through all 25000 pages and then come back and run again.  After thinking 
about it last night, I think this might be a very bad analog for the real 
world.  Specifically, this means that if I hit page1 and then 24999 other 
pages, by the time I hit page1 again in the second iteration the odds of 
anything being cached for page1 are very, very low :-)  This would explain why 
the numbers don't seem to show much improvement from iteration 1 to iteration 2 
under 1.8.  How easily do you think you could change the harness so that 
iterations run depth first rather than breadth first?  If you had that I'd be 
able to include that when I do my updated run (with the latest bits since I'm 
one build behind).

> > I am still chewing on what the information below means... ;-)
>
> Have you had a chance to look at the contents of any of the really slow
> pages?

I haven't.  I will try to pick out a few of them this week and see if I can 
repro the performance in a one-off case.  If I can, I'll put these up on 
flexwiki.com and I'll take a look at what they're doing to see if I can suggest 
any areas for exploration.

> Bad Case 2 (was slow but it was acceptable, now it's not) is
> particularly interesting because of the small number of pages in this
> category. Here's my profiling technique [1] if you want to get out the
> microscope. If you can provide the data, I can do the analysis, too.

Realistically, I'm unlikely to be able to get a dev environment set up to do 
any of the profiling for the next couple of weeks.  Let's see what happens when 
I look at the offending pages (and a new run of data).

> I'm interested to hear what you have to say. I have been thinking very
> hard
> about how to add output caching to FlexWiki in the new design. It's
> decidedly nontrivial, but I'm increasingly convinced that there's a
> reasonable way to do it, where "reasonable" is defined as "does not
> produce
> spaghetti code". However, if we can ship 2.0 without it, that would be
> good
> - output caching could be a 2.2 feature. *If* I can pull it off, I
> think
> we'll find that it makes an *enormous* difference in performance in
> cases
> where WikiTalk can be cached (e.g. doesn't call DateTime.Now).
>
> If we don't think we can ship 2.0 without output caching, then I think
> maybe
> we should ship the current bits as Beta 3, and that www.flexwiki.com
> should
> be upgraded as well. I just really think we need to keep putting out
> "official" releases every three months or less - it's apparent from the
> questions that we get here that many people never visit
> http://builds.flexwiki.com, and a SourceForge "last updated" date way
> in the
> past is the kiss of death.

I agree that if we don't think we can ship 2.0 without output caching that 
shipping as beta 3 is a very good idea -- as is upgrading flexwiki.com.
>
> [1]
> - Download NProf
> - Build RenderDriver from the FlexWiki tools directory
> - In NProf, set RenderDriver.exe to be the executable
> - In NProf set the arguments to be "\path\to\flexwiki.config
> Namespace.TopicName n" where n is a number. I suggest 2 as a good
> start.
> - Run by pressing F5
> - After run completes, drill down into Main->Run to see where the time
> went.
> Or Main->Warmup if you want to see what happened before the cache was
> populated.
>
>
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