[wp-hackers] 5 minutes to a faster blog

[Viper007Bond]

Re-activate gzip. Longer generation times, but the user will see the page
faster in most cases as it loads a hell of a lot faster.

Compare page filesizes with this tool:
http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/

I have it off on my blog though 'cause it takes ages for a page to be
generated and downloaded if it has a couple hundred comments (which many of
my plugins do). Even on REALLY fast server. :/

On 12/1/06, Sebastian Herp <newsletter at scytheman.net> wrote:
>
> I tried to increase performance, too ... and found out the following
> things:
>
> - eAccelerator (and any other PHP-Accelerator) increaseed performance 2x
> often 3x (depending on the script that runs, frontpage = 2x)
> - enabling the mysql query cache helped a lot, but only if the $now in
> the posts-query gets frozen
> (http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-January/003885.html
> ),
> otherwise the frontpage doesn't benefit too much from it
> - switching to innodb actually decreased performance (nearly not
> measureable) on my install, but maybe my blog is too small with its 1500
> posts
> - enabling the built in cache decreased performance by 10%. So I guess
> my HD is simply too slow :-)
> hdparm -tT /dev/md0
> /dev/md0:
> Timing cached reads:   1908 MB in  2.00 seconds = 953.94 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:  146 MB in  3.02 seconds =  48.28 MB/sec
> - deactivating the gzip compression in the wp options panel increased
> performance a little bit
> - activating wp-cache (the plugin) increased performance by a factor of
> 6 (on my blog from 5 request per second to 30 request per second)
>
> Did I forget anything?
>
> Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> > With the following I regularly get sub 100 millisecond front-page
> > generation time on photomatt.net, and lower on WP Pages. No caching
> > plugins, no alternative front-ends that make me rewrite my themes and
> > plugins, just plain WordPress.
> >
> > 1. Use APC:
> >
> > http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
> >
> > APC can give you a 3x speedup in load times, instantly.
> >
> > Tip: If you're on Litespeed, use this to save memory:
> >
> >
> http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed_wiki:php:opcode_cache
> >
> >
> > (APC is bundled with Litespeed, btw.)
> >
> > 2. Enable the query cache:
> >
> > nano /etc/my.cnf
> >
> > [mysqld]
> > ...
> > query_cache_size = 64M
> >
> > /etc/init.d/mysql restart
> >
> > This usually cuts in half most SQL times on busy sites, if not more.
> >
> > 3. Swich your tables to InnoDB
> >
> > Use phpMyAdmin > table > Operations to switch.
> >
> > And add the following in your MySQL config file, adjust sizes as
> > necessary for your memory:
> >
> > # Make buffer_pool larger than the size of your DB, if possible
> > innodb_buffer_pool_size=512M
> > innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=20M
> > innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0
> > innodb_log_buffer_size=8M
> >
> > Restart MySQL.
> >
> > 4. Enable WP's built-in caching
> >
> > define( 'ENABLE_CACHE', true ); // in wp-config.php
> >
> > Unless you have slow HDs, like a NFS-based host like Dreamhost.
> >
> > == More than 5 minutes, bonus ==
> >
> > 5. Use WP 2.1
> >
> > It's way faster.
> >
>
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