[pmwiki-users] PmWiki scalebility questions (newbie)

Hsing-Foo Wang hsingfoo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 06:00:48 CDT 2006


Thanks Joachim,

-HF


On 8/28/06, Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
> Hsing-Foo Wang schrieb:
> > thanks for your input. Since I am a nOOb on the questions I asked,
> > would it be possible for you to explain in more detail on your
> > suggestion/tip please?
>
> There isn't much else to explain. Just ask your administrator whether
> the file system can handle extremely large directories well.
>
> You *could* test it yourself. Have somebody write a PHP program that
> creates empty files in a test directory, and measures the time for each
> run of, say, 100 files. If file creation slows down after creating
> 10,000 files or so, you should split the wiki.d directory as described
> in another post; if the timings just fluctuate, you don't need to bother.
>
> One data point:
> A friend of mine is running a wiki with (currently) 4100 files in it.
> It's a relatively small and slow server (Intel Celeron 1.2GHz,
> 256MB RAM), with a dir_index option not set. Serving requests takes
> somewhere between 0.5 and 3 seconds (I don't have good instrumentation
> in place right now). He once had tons of files for deleted pages, and
> reported that he got a considerable speedup after deleting those files,
> so the slowdown was indeed observable.
> In other words, it's barely tolerable at ~4000 files on a small server.
>
> HTH
> Jo
>
> _______________________________________________
> pmwiki-users mailing list
> pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
>




More information about the pmwiki-users mailing list