[pmwiki-users] A save-and-view button

[V.Krishn]

Thanks Petko.
That was nice compilation. should be on some page like 
Cookbook/OptimizingPmWiki or maybe
PmWiki/OptimizingPmWiki

Regards,
V.Krishn

On Sunday 07 Feb 2010 1:07:04 am Petko Yotov wrote:
> On Saturday 06 February 2010 19:14:06, Randy Brown wrote :
> > This raises a question that I've been meaning to ask anyway: does adding
> >  custom conditional tests or custom page variables slow PmWiki's
> >  processing? If it doesn't slow my already slow wiki, I can think of all
> >  sorts of ways I might want to use them.
>
> This one doesn't. :-)
>
> Conditionals, MarkupExpresisons, or custom markup, which read pages from
> disk do slow the processing - eg. those calling the functions PageVar,
> ReadPage, RetrieveAuthPage, PageTextVar, CondAuth...
>
> Other stuff that slows down / speeds up a wiki :
> * Pagelists, more than the required ones. For example, a menu/sidebar with
> a bulletted list is times faster than a menu populated by a pagelist -- and
> as a menu doesn't change often, it is usually better to update it by hand.
> + Adding a group=Main or a name=Main.*-Talk filter to a pagelist speeds it.
> + Wikitrail from a pagelist is slower than normal wikitrail, like the
> menus. * $EnablePageListProtect = 0; speeds significantly pagelists. Look
> at the docs though, before setting this:
> http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PagelistVariables * Including other pages,
> and PTVs from other pages, requires to open the disk files of the other
> page -- so use sparingly. If you don't often change a site header/footer,
> it will be faster to have the content in the skin template instead of in
> wiki pages.
> * Some recipes like total realtime visitor counters read&write to disk
> files on every page view -- that could be significantly slower. Besides the
> stats, if a recipe manipulates session data, a session file is also
> read/written. Reading a file takes time, writing to a file usually takes
> much more time. * Using too many recipes requires to open all their
> cookbook *.php files, which adds some milli-seconds.
> * Using RewriteRules/CleanUrls is slightly slower than not using it.
> * $EnableIMSCaching = 1; makes everything faster, in the period between one
>   edit and another edit (in the whole wiki) -- so if you have such long
>   periods and many visitors between them, it may be useful.
> * Loading javascripts, puctures and counters from external websites often
>   makes a site "feel" slower - stuff like Ads or Google Analythics.
> * Loading external content is slower - like inline RSS feeds,
> Flickr/Twitter updates, Weather, Maps etc. -- unless the recipe caches the
> remote data for a while and displays the cached version to many visitors.
> * On my experience, PmWiki on PHP 5 runs noticeably faster than on PHP 4.
> * (I may have forgotten something.)
>
> There are recipes (FastCache...) which claim to speed the processing and
> the wiki should run faster for non-logged-in visitors.
>
> The SQLite PageStore recipe was reported to dramatically speed up a wiki
> including pagelists -- it is very likely faster, but I haven't personnally
> used it on a wiki with hundreds of pages, hundreds of visitors a day and
> many editors, so I still consider it experimental.
>
> If you run a dedicated hardware server, you can do even more optimizations
> (and if you're either a black-belt admin with a beard, or have enough money
> to hire me :-).
> * Use a local harddisk rather than network storage.
> * Use a faster filesystem like Reiser4 or a less-CPU-intensive one like
> JFS. * Use fast SSD hard-disks -- even a Flash memory card with the program
> files could improve speeds (only use for limited, rarely modified files,
> not for wiki.d or uploads; needs testing - speed could also be worse).
> * Use not Apache but a smaller/faster http server like Nginx.
> * Use PHP with FastCGI.
> * Use a PHP cache like APC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_accelerator .
>   Earlier this week, Facebook announced a new faster PHP runtime/webserver.
> * Copy all the program files, skins, css... into the RAM of the server and
> run the wiki from there.
>
> Petko
>
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Regards,
V.Krishn