Truly fantastic news - awesome work! On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, I just rendered [[Barack Obama]] in about 6 seconds. I haven't tested > it for several months, but in the post-Lua era I've generally gotten around > 12-15 seconds. (Prior to Lua citations, it was 30 seconds.) I don't know > is HHVM is the whole story, but that's a fabulous improvement towards the > usability of our largest pages. > > -Robert Rohde > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > This is fantastic. Great job team and do put up a blog post about this. > > > > --tomasz > > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto > > <glavage...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > it's been quite a journey since we started working on HHVM, and last > > > week (November 25th) HHVM was finally introduced to all users who > didn't > > > opt-in to the beta feature. > > > > > > Starting on monday, we started reinstalling all the 150 remaining > > > servers that were running Zend's mod_php, upgrading them from Ubuntu > > > precise to Ubuntu trusty in the process. It seemed like an enormous > task > > > that would require me weeks to complete, even with the improved > > > automation we built lately. > > > > > > Thanks to the incredible work by Yuvi and Alex, who helped me basically > > > around the clock, today around 16:00 UTC we removed the last of the > > > mod_php servers from our application server pool: all the non-API > > > traffic is now being served by HHVM. > > > > > > This new PHP runtime has already halved our backend latency and page > > > save times, and it has also reduced significantly the load on our > > > cluster (as I write this email, the average cpu load on the application > > > servers is around 16%, while it was easily above 50% in the pre-HHVM > > era). > > > > > > The API traffic is still being partially served by mod_php, but that > > > will not be for long! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Giuseppe > > > -- > > > Giuseppe Lavagetto > > > Wikimedia Foundation - TechOps Team > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ops mailing list > > > o...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ops > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
