Slow site = config problem?

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Geraint Edwards

Thursday 14 July 2005 3:11:49 am

Even with viewcaching and template compilation enabled my test server's performance (v.3.60) is very slow. The base index page (after compilation/caching) is taking c. 0.5 secs to load.

I've done some testing, peppering the code with timing points and discovered that anout 30% of this time is take by the following line:

require_once( 'kernel/classes/ezcontentclass.php' );

This file only contains class definitions and doesn't execute anything as far as I can tell. Does this suggest that I am hitting some memory constraint in apache such that a swap file is being used at this point or could the file be on a dodgy bit of disk? Probably not this since loading it from a second disk makes no difference.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Geraint

Geraint Edwards

Thursday 14 July 2005 11:23:44 am

I've now rebuilt php with --enable-memory-limit so that I can track memory usage. The results are rather alarming!

A really basic page (already view cached & compiled) uses 9460KB of memory and the time bottleneck I'm seeing coincides with an increased usage from 2247KB to 5570KB. More complex pages/templates use even more!

Does eZPublish really need to use this much memory?

Geraint

Geraint Edwards

Thursday 14 July 2005 12:06:57 pm

Ok - some rooting around and I find some comments about APC reducing memory usage. So I've tried it out and get the following approx results:

No accelerators 0.50 secs 9.4MB
php_accelerator 0.23 secs 9.7MB
APC 0.14 secs 1.1MB

I think I have my answer.

Paul Borgermans

Thursday 14 July 2005 12:22:25 pm

Hi Geraint

Yes, eZ publish is resource hungry (both RAM and CPU), even with a php accelerator and some fairly simple presentation logic in templates.

If you ever are to be slashdotted, turn the static caching on which is available from 3.6.x :-)

-paul

eZ Publish, eZ Find, Solr expert consulting and training
http://twitter.com/paulborgermans

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eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:40:14
Script start
Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:40:14
Module start 'layout'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:40:14
Module start 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:40:15
Module end 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 10:40:15
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime0.7956 sec
Peak memory usage4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries60

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0058 589.0703152.6250
Module start 'layout' 0.00580.0031 741.695339.4453
Module start 'content' 0.00890.7852 781.1406542.5156
Module end 'content' 0.79410.0014 1,323.656312.1641
Script end 0.7956  1,335.8203 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00330.4124160.0002
Check MTime0.00140.1738160.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00090.107210.0009
Mysqli_queries0.737192.6509600.0123
Looping result0.00060.0781580.0000
Template Total0.753094.620.3765
Template load0.00230.289520.0012
Template processing0.750694.350720.3753
Template load and register function0.00020.030010.0002
states
state_id_array0.00310.394410.0031
state_identifier_array0.00310.388620.0015
Override
Cache load0.00190.2435260.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00070.083620.0003
Fetch class attribute name0.00150.188350.0003
XML
Image XML parsing0.00060.070320.0003
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute0.00000.001550.0000
General
dbfile0.00520.6539170.0003
String conversion0.00000.000740.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

UsageRequested templateTemplateTemplate loadedEditOverride
1node/view/full.tplfull/forum_topic.tplextension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tplEdit templateOverride template
4content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl<No override>extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tplEdit templateOverride template
5content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl<No override>extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tplEdit templateOverride template
1content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl<No override>design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tplEdit templateOverride template
1content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl<No override>extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tplEdit templateOverride template
1print_pagelayout.tpl<No override>extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tplEdit templateOverride template
 Number of times templates used: 13
 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs