> > > Assuming your whole site isn't based on personalisation, implementing > > > Squid as a web accelerator with proper caching headers on your pages > > > can allow Midgard to scale to unforeseen heights. > > > > > > Wow! Did I read right? The squid setup has a better response time for 70 > > users than Midgard at 10? > > Yes I was pretty impressed with the difference. I used Siege a website stress tester > tool that you you can just install using apt if you are running debian and then used > the bombardment program that comes with it. When I ran it against the site, just > hitting the frontpage in the normal midgard site and then hitting it when it was > saved as html you could see that mysql was the bottle neck. Our front page makes > quite a lot of calls to the database. I was worried that I might not have optimised > my mysql server very well but had a look at the different options and ran some of > the tests that are included with mysql and it appeared to be within the range of > what others were saying were good results. Of course there might well be other > things that we can do to speed it up but given the nature of our site, most of the > pages won't be changing that frequently and we don't require personalisation, and > our resources, everything is running of the same virtual server caching with squid w il > l let us meet our current traffic needs easily.
One of the interesting things I read on another maillinglist is a tip to try the same bombardment through a line that equals the one you're going to use instead of your local 100mb line. The result will probably be even more in favour of the caching solution. tarjei > > Cheers > John > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
