Performance

Ruby Apps Radiant CMS
1

Hello List,

I’m having some performance issues on a site based on Radiant.

It’s running on Radiant 0.6.2

Sample in the log:

Processing SiteController#show_page (for 66.249.65.136 at 2007-11-14
11:52:20) [GET]
Parameters: {“url”=>[“nl”, “vliegbinden”, “gastbinders”,
“arnold-woerts”],
“action”=>“show_page”, “controller”=>“site”}
Completed in 4.88098 (0 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.17913 (3%) | 200 OK [
TransIP - Reserved domain]

Processing SiteController#show_page (for 66.249.65.136 at 2007-11-14
11:58:43) [GET]
Parameters: {“url”=>[“nl”, “vliegbinden”, “gastbinders”,
“gerd-peter-wieditz”], “action”=>“show_page”, “controller”=>“site”}
Completed in 4.94082 (0 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.13819 (2%) | 200 OK [
TransIP - Reserved domain]

Seems that it takes almost 5 secondens! to render a page.

How can I measure my site so I can boost the performace?

BTW It;s hosted on slicehost on a 256 slice.

Thanks

2

Your site (nice work!) looks mostly static, you can try the snapshot
extension:

http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant/2007-October/006823.html

Still is a preview, but it should be usable. Hope to find a moment
to
release it soon…

/AITOR

On Nov 14, 2007 1:02 PM, Peter B. [email protected]

3

Thanks,

I will check that out, looks really promising.

Peter.

On Nov 14, 2007 1:16 PM, Aitor Garay-Romero [email protected] wrote:

On Nov 14, 2007 1:02 PM, Peter B. [email protected]

Sample in the log:
11:58:43) [GET]

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–
met vriendelijke groet,

Peter B.

4

±le 14.11.2007 08:28:59 -0600, Sean C. a dit :
| Peter,
|
| Are you using mongrel_cluster? If so, I would make sure you don’t run
| more than 2 mongrel processes. On an app I worked on this summer that
| was hosted on a 256 slice, we would have major problems if we ran more
| than two, our app would screech to a halt after about an hour of hitting
| various actions.
|
| FYI, seancribbs.com runs Radiant on a 256 slice with only one mongrel.
| I have yet to have a problem with it.

I’m wondering, do you have any performance benchmarks regarding the time
needed to serve a page and the number of mongrels ?

5

Sean C. wrote:

Are you using mongrel_cluster? If so, I would make sure you don’t run
more than 2 mongrel processes. On an app I worked on this summer that
was hosted on a 256 slice, we would have major problems if we ran more
than two, our app would screech to a halt after about an hour of hitting
various actions.

FYI, seancribbs.com runs Radiant on a 256 slice with only one mongrel.
I have yet to have a problem with it.

Cheers,
Sean

Thanks for the info on Slicehost + Mongrel performance. I’m slowly
moving all my Radiant apps over there and this is good knowledge to
have.

6

Peter,

Are you using mongrel_cluster? If so, I would make sure you don’t run
more than 2 mongrel processes. On an app I worked on this summer that
was hosted on a 256 slice, we would have major problems if we ran more
than two, our app would screech to a halt after about an hour of hitting
various actions.

FYI, seancribbs.com runs Radiant on a 256 slice with only one mongrel.
I have yet to have a problem with it.

Cheers,

Sean

7

I think I run 4 mongrels, so that should be brought back to two. I also
use
Apache which has to be replaced with nginx or something else.

Thanks for the headsup!

Peter

On Nov 14, 2007 5:22 PM, David P. [email protected] wrote:

Cheers,
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Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant

–
met vriendelijke groet,

Peter B.

8

If you guys are concerned about performance, please search the mailing
list for Daniel’s most recent benchmarks. He’s done a great job making
sure Radiant’s cache performance is stellar.

Sean