On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:50 -0400, Dave Humphrey wrote: > The fact that your phpinfo.php takes 30 seconds tells me it is an issue > with your server in general and not specifically your MediaWiki. > > 1) How many requests/second are you serving and how many is your server > capable of? For example, if your server is only capable of 10 req/sec but > you are trying to server 20 req/sec you're going to have a bad time. Use > Apache's server-status page to get an idea what the current load is and > "ab" (ApacheBench) to benchmark your server (when it is not overloaded of > course). Apache is not stressed by client hits. This is a new site at this location & currently no one is looking at it.
> 2) You can also check "top" to see what your server load and CPU usage is > and what is taking up most of the CPU time. It may be Apache (httpd) or it > may be a host of other issues (dead locked processes, failing hard drives, > misconfigured components, etc...). No issues there its a VPS server & all the hardware is good. > 3) Check your logs for any relevant messages, mainly your Apache error log > assuming it is enabled. You can increase the PHP error logging level if > needed as well. Now here is a LOT of issues. I found a crap load of requests by the mediawiki software to work on several directories where I had not set the permissions correctly. I went in and changed those & for a day it speeded up remarkably, however I went in this morning & checked the logs & there are a LOT of new errors that are similar so I now am looking into the mediawiki software to correct these errors. Will post my results: Thanks for the tip, I guess I just forgot to check the basics. > > These simple steps should give you a good start on where the problem is or > at least where the problem isn't and you can start narrowing down the issue > from there. > > > On 25 October 2013 12:18, John W. Foster <jfoster81...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I need to figure out why my wiki is running so slow. It seemed fine when > > I first got it running but as I've added content it has become way too > > slow for actual use. I did run the rebuildAll.php & that seemed to hel a > > bit, but when I added more content it again skowed way down. I have > > wondered if adding the SemanticWiki extension may have caused this. I do > > have caching enabled and the site is currently up and running, so those > > interested may look at it. i also have decided to keep Scribunto running > > as its required for most of the templates, but I hope the bug about > > 'text/plain' get fixed soon. That is the only issue I currently have > > with importing pages. > > Any & ALL tips are appreciated > > Thanks! > > john _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l