[rt-users] My RT is too slow

Asif Iqbal iqbala at qwestip.net
Tue Feb 3 11:04:53 EST 2004



Try using RT 3-0-8. Also you can go to rt3.fsck.com and login as
guest/guest and look for tickets related to performance


Kevin Murphy wrote:
> Wilson,
> 
> As someone pointed out to me once, a good way to search the list 
> archives is to do a google search for
> 
> [site:lists.fsck.com RT slow]  (or performance, or sluggish, or 
> whatever)
> 
> In general, "the list helps those who help themselves", so you really 
> have to do some footwork yourself first.
> 
> Some people would probably like to help you, but not many are expert 
> enough to do so, and it would take a lot of time to go through all the 
> possibilities with you.  Personally, I'm not even sure what the 
> possibilities are: I would have to search the list archives, etc, 
> myself.   I don't know how much you know, but there's a lot of sysadmin 
> and apache admin knowledge that comes into play here.  I have only a 
> little of it.
> 
> One question is: how much memory does this box have?  mod_perl apps can 
> use a lot.   Related to this question is, how many apache children are 
> running?  Each one is huge and fat with perl and perl modules.   What 
> else is this apache server doing?  If the same apache server is used to 
> serve  a lot of static content, you may have excessive memory usage 
> because perl-equipped processes are being wasted on serving static 
> pages.  In such cases, it's best to have two entirely separate 
> instances, with the static page server not having mod_perl but instead 
> reverse proxying to the mod_perl instance.   Other Q's: When you do 
> 'top' or 'top -u', what is consuming a lot of cpu?  mysql?  httpd?  
> both?  Is there paging going on (memory-related question)?  vmstat pi 
> and po columns nonzero mean paging - not enough physical memory in the 
> machine (if you have vmstat).
> 
> I have to get a release out the door today, so that's all I can help 
> with today; sorry.
> 
> -Kevin Murphy
> 
> On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 07:20 AM, Wilson Abigaba wrote:
> 
> >Hi rt-users,
> >This is an addition to the question i sent in the morning about my rt
> >being too slow.
> >I'm a new user and using rt-3.0.8 hosted on a FreeBSD 
> >platform(server). My
> >datbase is Mysql and so far root is the only account there. I'm using
> >apache 1.3.29 and mod_perl 1.29.
> >The main problem is the speed of this RT. Other sites and links work
> >sastifactorily fast but rt always takes more than 15 minutes to load.
> >Help me please,
> >thank you,
> >Wilson
> 
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