[Mediawiki-l] looking for hints for system performance

[Matias Pelenur]

Hi all,
I've recently installed a MediaWiki 1.3.0beta2 system (off the CVS tip) 
and while it works nicely I want to make sure that my server is 
configured for best performance -- right now response time is not super 
fast.

I'm running the site on a "virtual-server" 2GB 2-proc machine running 
Redhat 9. I have Apache 2.0.49, PHP 4.3.6, MySQL 4.0 stable.

I installed all these myself and am using pretty much whatever the 
default configurations are. I wonder if in particular for MySQL (and 
perhaps Apache) I may have a very sub-optimal config.

So I'm basically looking for hints on what configuration values people 
have used for MySQL (memory, buffer sizes, cache sizes, etc), PHP (mysql 
persistent connections or not?), Apache (threading module type, memory, 
caveats, etc etc) that have shown good improvements.

Thanks in advance,
Matias