Gems page excruciatingly slow

[sdevore at mac.com]

This is a known issue on nt flavors.  You might check with Lawrence at 
Userland to see if they have made any progress on this problem

Sam D
On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Ian Beatty wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I recently moved my department's Manila server from one machine to a 
> different one, and at the same time upgraded from Frontier 7.x to 
> Frontier 9. We're now finding that for Manila sites with more than a 
> few Gems, the Gems page takes a ridiculously long time to get served. 
> 30+ seconds is not atypical. Other pages are sometimes slower than 
> we'd like, too, but generally not that bad.
>
> I've also noticed that every minute, the server load maxes out for 
> perhaps 15-20 seconds. What's strange is that this occurs even if I 
> turn off save-open-databases-every-minute (or at least I think I have, 
> according to the admin website and the prefs in config.root).
>
> Quitting and restarting Frontier reduces the every-minute activity 
> duration somewhat, for a little while.
>
> This new server is somewhat faster than our old one -- a Pentium II 
> 300 MHz (or so) with 640 MB RAM. The old one was a somewhat slower 
> PII, but had a disk array (mirroring, not striping) and may have had 
> faster disk access.
>
> I really need help resolving this problem; Manila is so slow many 
> times that it's become basically unworkable for us. If I can't get 
> this fixed, we'll have to find a different solution for our course 
> websites.
>
> I can offer stats on number of sites, number of files in the Gems 
> folder,etc. if that's helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ..Ian Beatty
>
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