Pierre, thanks for your comment... I'm forwarding it to wikitech-l, which is where the developers hang out. Coincidentally, we are just now discussing performance issues. Would you be interested in joining us?

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From: Pierre Abbat phma@webjockey.net Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:14:25 -0400 To: webmaster@wikipedia.com Subject: HTTP response from wikipedia takes too long

I am trying to read Wikipedia and Konqueror frequently times out, resulting in an edit conflict if I'm trying to submit something. Trying to access ross.bomis.com does not result in long times. Can you fix it?

phma --- [phma@neofelis abi]$ time webserver ross.bomis.com Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 0.11user 2.00system 0:10.61elapsed 19%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (1095major+404minor)pagefaults 0swaps [phma@neofelis abi]$ time webserver ross.bomis.com Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 0.09user 0.10system 0:00.91elapsed 20%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (1052major+404minor)pagefaults 0swaps [phma@neofelis abi]$ time webserver ross.bomis.com Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 0.10user 0.09system 0:00.44elapsed 42%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (1052major+404minor)pagefaults 0swaps [phma@neofelis abi]$ time webserver www.wikipedia.com Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 0.11user 0.22system 0:32.39elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (957major+376minor)pagefaults 0swaps [phma@neofelis abi]$ time webserver www.wikipedia.com Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 0.10user 1.02system 1:17.12elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (1125major+404minor)pagefaults 0swaps [phma@neofelis abi]$ time webserver www.wikipedia.com

Looking up www.wikipedia.com. Making HTTP connection to www.wikipedia.com. Sending HTTP request. HTTP request sent; waiting for response. Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. Can't Access `http://www.wikipedia.com/' Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile Command exited with non-zero status 1 0.10user 2.28system 5:16.30elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (1176major+406minor)pagefaults 0swaps

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