Modified config file as follows:
$wgUseDatabaseMessage = false;
$wgUseFileCache = true;
$wgMainCacheType = "CACHE_ACCEL";
I also installed xcache and eaccelerator. The improvement in speed is huge.
2009/1/27 Aryeh Gregor
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> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Dawson <costelloe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, I have a couple of mediawiki installations on two different slices
> at
> > Slicehost, both of which run websites on the same slice with no speed
> > problems, however, the mediawiki themselves run like dogs!
> >
http://wiki.medicalstudentblog.co.uk/ Any ideas what to look for or ways
> to
> > optimise them? I still can't get over they need a 100mb ini_set in
> settings
> > to just load due to the messages or something.
> If you haven't already, you should set
up an opcode cache like APC or
> XCache, and a variable cache like APC or XCache (if using one
> application server) or memcached (if using multiple application
> servers). Those are essential for decent performance. If you want
> really snappy views, at least for logged-out users, you should use
> Squid too, although that's probably overkill for a small site. It
> also might be useful to install wikidiff2 and use that for diffs.
> Of course, none of this works if you
don't have root access. (Well,
> maybe you could get memcached working with only shell . . .) In that
> case, I'm not sure what advice to give.
> MediaWiki is a big, slow package, though.
For large sites, it has
> scalability features that are almost certainly unparalleled in any
> other wiki software, but it's probably not optimized as much for quick
> loading on small-scale, cheap hardware. It's mainly meant for
> Wikipedia. If you want to try digging into what's taking so long, you
> can try enabling profiling:
>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Profiling#Profiling
> If you find something that helps a lot, it
would be helpful to mention it.
>
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