History of bitweaverPerformance
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bitweaverPerformance
Tips and Techniques for High Performance bitweaver
bitweaver Performance Tips
These tips are particularly important for high volume sites.Bitweaver Optimisation
- every direcoty is scanned on every page load. even though the overhead is not large, we recommend that you remove all unused packages from your server. you can add them back at a later time point if you need them later on.
Template Optimisation
- Speed optimisation
- TemplateOptimization
System Perfomance Tips
System Administration Tools
- MultiTail - tail on steroids
- Make sure your mail server is working
Apache Settings
Make sure you have an Advanced Apache Configuration for High Traffic SitesPHP Optimisation
- Use Fast Coding Habits
- Allocate a large chunk of memory to php in your php.ini file
- Install ImageMagick's Magickwand for better image handling
- Install pecl fileinfo for better type checking on file uploads
- Install an Accelerator
- Installation of a PHP opcode caching mechanism like php-eaccelerator ( which is a maintained version of turck-mmcache ) will dratically reduce PHP memory usage and improve execution time. It is available as a yum installable Fedora extra rpm.
Postgres
Install the tablefunc contribution to achieve massive optimization of GatekeeperPackage security look ups. tablefunc has the Oracle'esque "connectby" function that will let you execute recurisve queries on a hierarchical table that has id/parent_id rows, ala the tiki_fisheye_gallery_map. To install, make sure you have installed teh postgresql-contrib rpm/deb/whatever, and execute something like this FedoraCore 3 command line:
# psql foo < /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/tablefunc.sql
Then to your config_inc.php, add:
<?php
define( 'POSTGRESQL_CONTRIB', TRUE );
?>
ToDo
Areas to investigate for Code Opimizations
- ADODB
- If writing code, see the Tuning tips and install the ADODB C Extension