[07-JUN-2013] Please testdrive BLF on a different server

[moderator007]

Slowing down for me too. I believe a few people here are putting it through a torture test.

[sb56637]

@fishmaniac

The test site is much much slower for me than the current site.

Yep, it’s starting to hurt now. Only about 30MB of free RAM and no swap. So it should crash pretty soon. Let’s wait and find out.

[PilotPTK]

@sb56637

@fishmaniac

The test site is much much slower for me than the current site.

Yep, it’s starting to hurt now. Only about 30MB of free RAM and no swap. So it should crash pretty soon. Let’s wait and find out.

What's that you say? You want another 200 threads? No problem :)

[sb56637]

Threads: 10 Questions: 1234713 Slow queries: 27 Opens: 414 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 283.842

[PilotPTK]

Yeah, it is hurting now. Timeouts are approaching 30%

[sb56637]

Normally we have more anonymous users than logged-in users, and anonymous users usually get a cached version of the page that takes very little resources to serve up. So this is pretty impressive considering that the static HTML cache is disabled.

[sb56637]

Threads: 10 Questions: 1234713 Slow queries: 27 Opens: 414 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 283.842

[sb56637]

Threads: 11 Questions: 1392260 Slow queries: 29 Opens: 432 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 305.052

[moderator007]

@sb56637

@moderator007

But they are linked from the server correct.

Basically, the HTML file contains the link to the image, hosted elsewhere on the internet. You download that small HTML page from BLF, and then your browser obeys the link and initiates a connection with the remove server and downloads the image. What you probably perceive as a speed increase is the reduction in the amount of time that it is taking for the new BLF test server to respond to your request. This production site is taking forever to respond to requests.

On pic heavy threads is usually where it seems to be the slowest for me. On the new server the entire thread and pics load incredible faster. I couldn’t tell you what’s making the difference but they are a huge difference for me. Tried it again just now as the torture test is being run and its about like normal BLF.

[scaru]

Shall I give this a shot. :P

wget -H -r —level=1 -k http://198.199.90.139

[sb56637]

@scaru

Shall I give this a shot.

wget -H -r —level=1 -k http://198.199.90.139

Do it!

[sb56637]

Threads: 11 Questions: 1578869 Slow queries: 31 Opens: 437 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 328.110

[sb56637]

MariaDB v10 seems pretty nice. Drop-in compatible with mySQL, performance improvements, and free of the shackles of Oracle.

[scaru]

Ok, it is now running. :)

[sb56637]

Threads: 6 Questions: 1668546 Slow queries: 31 Opens: 440 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 337.557

Wonder why the threads went down?

[Slewflash]

I opened 33 pages, just refreshing them every few seconds now.
I’m not actually checking the speed of the site though, is it holding up well?

EDIT: scaru, i’m using the easy auto refresh add on, it’s quite good!

[PilotPTK]

@sb56637

Threads: 6 Questions: 1668546 Slow queries: 31 Opens: 440 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 337.557 Wonder why the threads went down?

Honestly, probably because I backed off. Want me to hammer it again?

[scaru]

@PilotPTK

@sb56637

Threads: 6 Questions: 1668546 Slow queries: 31 Opens: 440 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 337.557 Wonder why the threads went down?

Honestly, probably because I backed off. Want me to hammer it again?

Yes...

[sb56637]

@Slewflash

I opened 33 pages, just refreshing them every few seconds now.
I’m not actually checking the speed of the site though, is it holding up well?

It’s pretty slow now for me, just click on one link at a time. It’s because the Apache workers are all busy and a long waiting queue. I’m keeping those values fairly low to save RAM.

[PilotPTK]

Check it now. I just turned up the heat a bit.