[rt-devel] Performance (was: Kill spam from mail)]

[Mark Vevers]

>>> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:24:04PM +0200, Jonas Liljegren wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In 1.3.70...
>>>> 
>>>> The RT system is currently rather slow. Many of the pages takes 10
>>>> seconds to build. The database has around 150 tickets.  /proc/cpuinfo
>>>> says 76.8 bogomips.  We will move to a faster machine.  -- I just
>>>> wanted to say that there is a reason for shortcuts...

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Jesse wrote:

> I probably wouldn't run it in production with less than a 500mhz cpu and 128
> megs of ram in the box.  As I said though, there's ongoing performance work,
> though it's not the highest priority thing going on.  Buying faster hardware
> and sponsoring work on performance are both valid ways to deal with this.

I'm running RT on a dedicated dual 450MHz P3 with 512 Meg RAM, and performance
seems to be slowing down considerably, especially when displaying long tickets.
We only have 36 in the database with a total of 121 attachments(just starting
to use it in our backbone team) and building some of them can take ten seconds
before the page starts displaying. I'm sure it's not the mysql server as if
issue the SQL commands manually it's all sub 1 second.

(And no, it's not the network either.  It's on a 100Mb full duplex feed to an
unloaded switch on it's own vlan and FTP from here to there runs at about 97
Mbits ..!)

Anything which updates the database takes even longer.