[rt-users] Performance problems

Jesse jesse at fsck.com
Sun Jul 15 00:05:52 EDT 2001


Netwscape 4.x's layout engine chokes badly on nested tables. IE 4.x and 5.x,
mozilla, lynx, links and w3m all perform much better than netscape 4.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:18:35PM -0400, Stephen Feather wrote:
> The browser can also be a factor.
> Some information from here:
> WinMe running ie5.5 with Nortons Personal Privacy (web ad stripping,
> cookie handling) takes about 4-5 seconds.
> Netscape on Mandrake takes about the same.
> Lynx on Redhat almost instantanious.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com
> [mailto:rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com] On Behalf Of Manuel Linsmayer
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 7:35 PM
> To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
> Subject: [rt-users] Performance problems
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I installed Request Tracker (2.0.1). Everything works correct, but the
> performance of the web interface is _very_ poor. I've to wait four
> seconds for every page.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this issue is caused by RT2 itself, or by a Perl
> module or the MySQL database. Maybe somebody out there can help me.
> 
> Here is what 'make testdeps' says:
> 
> Checking for DBI 1.16 ...found
> Checking for DBIx::DataSource 0.02 ...found
> Checking for DBIx::SearchBuilder 0.40 ...found
> Checking for HTML::Entities...found
> Checking for MLDBM...found
> Checking for Net::Domain...found
> Checking for Net::SMTP...found
> Checking for Params::Validate 0.02 ...found
> Checking for HTML::Mason 0.896 ...found
> Checking for CGI::Cookie 1.06 ...found
> Checking for Apache::Session 1.53 ...found
> Checking for Date::Parse...found
> Checking for Date::Format...found
> Checking for MIME::Entity 5.108 ...found
> Checking for Mail::Mailer 1.20 ...found
> Checking for Getopt::Long 2.24 ...found
> Checking for Tie::IxHash...found
> Checking for Text::Wrapper...found
> Checking for Text::Template...found
> Checking for File::Spec 0.8 ...found
> Checking for Errno...found
> Checking for File::Temp...found
> Checking for Log::Dispatch 1.6 ...found
> Checking for DBD::mysql 2.0416 ...found
> 
> I'm using Apache 1.3.20, MySQL 3.23.32 and mod_perl 1.26.
> 
> And here's what I have in httpd.conf (inside VirtualHost).
> 
> Alias /rt2/ "/usr/local/rt2/WebRT/html/"
> <Location "/rt2">
>   PerlModule Apache::DBI
>   PerlRequire "/usr/local/rt2/bin/webmux.pl"
>   SetHandler perl-script
>   PerlHandler RT::Mason
> </Location>
> 
> Btw, I'm using MySQL very intensively, so it should work fine.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Manuel
> 
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