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 <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Dawson &lt;costelloe(a)gmail.com&gt; 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. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jason Schulz wrote: The shell script you mention in step 2 has some stuff in it that makes it unusable outside Wikimedia: 1) lots of hard-coded paths 2) what is "/usr/local/bin/run-jobs"? I'd put "0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/wiki/maintenance/runJobs.php 2>&1 > /var/log/runJobs.log" as crontab entry in your guide, as it's a bit more compatible with non-wikimedia environments ;) Marco _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l