On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Dawson <costel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I have a couple of mediawiki installations on two different slices at > Slicehost, both of which run websites on the same slice with no speed > problems, however, the mediawiki themselves run like dogs! > http://wiki.medicalstudentblog.co.uk/ Any ideas what to look for or ways to > optimise them? I still can't get over they need a 100mb ini_set in settings > to just load due to the messages or something.
If you haven't already, you should set up an opcode cache like APC or XCache, and a variable cache like APC or XCache (if using one application server) or memcached (if using multiple application servers). Those are essential for decent performance. If you want really snappy views, at least for logged-out users, you should use Squid too, although that's probably overkill for a small site. It also might be useful to install wikidiff2 and use that for diffs. Of course, none of this works if you don't have root access. (Well, maybe you could get memcached working with only shell . . .) In that case, I'm not sure what advice to give. MediaWiki is a big, slow package, though. For large sites, it has scalability features that are almost certainly unparalleled in any other wiki software, but it's probably not optimized as much for quick loading on small-scale, cheap hardware. It's mainly meant for Wikipedia. If you want to try digging into what's taking so long, you can try enabling profiling: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Profiling#Profiling If you find something that helps a lot, it would be helpful to mention it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
