Jens Frank wrote:
OK, several possible conclusions:
- Susning might have less hits than wikipedia
- Susning's software might be better than the current MediaWiki release
- Susning might be running on a hell of a machine
- ....
Susning is in Swedish, limiting the possible audience to 9 million people plus Googlebot, so it should have less traffic than the English Wikipedia. Still, it pumped 50 GB of traffic (8 million hits) in October, comparable to the German Wikipedia. Wikipedia has had performance problems long before it had this much traffic.
The only thing you prove by these figures is that Susning is faster.
Yes, because this is the *only* thing that counts. Fix Wikipedia's response times and nobody will care about the architecture. I think you all focus too much on architecture and too little on time.
The focus on wallclock time is what drives my development of susning.
Think of wallclock time as a budget. You're spending 8.50 seconds on each request, and this is too much. Apparently it was possible in August to serve requests and only spend 1.5 seconds on each.
What would Alan Greenspan do? He would ask you to break down the sum. Where are the first 0.5 seconds spent? The next 0.5 secs? The next? Alan Greenspan would not fire you for spending 8.50 seconds, but he would fire you if you can't answer how they are spent, since that means you are out of control.