[Mediawiki-l] rendering speed and performance issues

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On 8/20/05, Mailing HEAVY.ch <mail at heavy.ch> wrote:
> I guess my provider got some performance troubles if it start to get
> over 1s. are there any "performance-tweaks" possible? but i'm not able
> (allowed) to change any memory-configirations or other os-based tweaks,
> coz' it's just hosted and i do not got my own server running.
> 
> im using the latest beta4, with no caching mechanism (or proxy like
> squids). also i can not tell you how many visits i have to count on in
> the future. it would be just nice if i would receive some expirence
> reviews from other wiki-webmasters on their own sites.. thanks!

There are some changes which can be made to LocalSettings.php to do
things like disable the counting of the number of visits.

That aside, the php caching is what makes anything running php go
faster.  I don't know of very many mediawiki-specific tweaks.  I'm
interested to learn if others do..