[pmwiki-users] pmwiki.org seems slow today btw

[Jean DEMARTINI]

Sebastian Siedentopf a écrit :
> Am 26.01.2006 um 20:09 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
>
>   
>> Well, I found at least part of the problem today -- requests
>> for the Cookbook.PostItNotes page on pmwiki.org were taking
>> a *huge* amount of time to process.  As a result, whenever
>> someone or a robot visited that page, it started eating up
>> all of the CPU time.  (Worse, sometimes a person would hit
>> the "stop" button and then re-issue the request, which meant
>> that there were two or more of these running.)
>>
>> I'm not sure what was causing that page to take so long
>> to render.  For the moment I've just disabled the recipe
>> on pmwiki.org, I don't have a lot of time to spare to see
>> if the newer version has similar problems.
>>
>> I do know that the recipe appears to be using PHP's
>> in_array() function, which in my experience is really
>> really really slow.
>>     
>
> I'm very sorry to hear about that. Afair this was my first recipe and  
> I was just a php beginner back then. The script grows organicaly and  
> the code is a mess now and needs to be rewritten.
>
> Beside this, I never heard of any slow down. A few StopWatch runs  
> show no problems either. You don't need to activate the recipt on  
> pmwiki again, I point to a test page in my own wiki.
>
>
> But this brings up an other point: I do not upload recipts anymore,  
> because people expect that original author maintains the recipt  
> through all the PmWiki updates. This is understandable, but not  
> always possible. I for one miss some kind of Hack or Snippet section  
> where you can exchange code snippets or non production/recipt quality  
> code. Sometimes you have written a usefull function but no time or  
> interest to make a full featured stand-alone recipt out of it, but it  
> could be helpfull to some other who solves an equal problem.
>
> Maybe an agressive "please pick up and recode" badget/categorie would  
> do the job. Or/and an explicit "this receipt is currently maintained  
> by xyz/none" to show if someone/who is the current maintainer.
>
> Sebastian
>   
I'm using heavily PostItNotes in my site for a while and I have not 
noticed any slowdown of my server. Then the problem is probably not in 
the script itself. A nasty (?) link in the cookbook recipe page itself ?

JDem