[Mediawiki-l] Windows Apache & IIS vs Linux Apache performance differences

[FL]

Question: is this comparison between LAMP vs WIMP implementations
of the same software being made on molecularly identical hardware?
The LAMP configuration is about 3 1/2 times faster than the WIMP 
configuration.

On 6/12/05, tthompson at envisionware.com <tthompson at envisionware.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 6/11/05, tthompson at envisionware.com wrote:
> >>...
> >> MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.18-max-debug-log
> >>...
> >> MySQL isn't breaking a sweat at all.
> >
> > Are you sure? My first guess would have been MySQL. See
> > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/windows-select-server.html
> 
> Good idea. I'll switch MySQL versions to something a bit less weighty.
> 
> >
> > Which process is using the CPU? (or is it System?)
> 
> The inetinfo.exe process jumps to 50-98% for several seconds on each wiki
> page.
> 
> >
> > It may also be worth checking any real-time anti-virus settings.
> 
> Thanks for the idea. I disabled it temporarily (Symantec AntiVirus 9.0
> Corporate Edition) but there was no noticeable change.
> 
> All leads point to the web service or PHP as the culprit... so far. During
> wiki page generation, the inetinfo.exe process allocates and releases
> about 8MB of memory, so it's apparently doing something substantial.
> 
> It would be nice if it did it faster, though. Comments have been made
> around the company about the wiki performance being a bit lackluster.
> *sigh*
> 
> Any other paths to try? I've attempted the page generation timing
> statistics thingy in Mediawiki, but I don't think I enabled enough detail.
> I get HTML comments in the pages for my personal ID with a summary.
> 
> On the Windows 2000 / IIS server, I get:
> 
> - Served by intrawiki.envisionware.com <http://intrawiki.envisionware.com>in 
> 1.22 secs.
> 
> On the Linux Fedora Core 2 / Apache laptop, I get:
> 
> - Served by ntop-internal.envisionware.com<http://ntop-internal.envisionware.com>in 
> 0.35 secs.
> 
> The Mediawiki code just seems MUCH slower on Windows 2000. Maybe LAMP
> (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) is the way to go, and WIMP
> (Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP) is not just an acronym? *wrysmile!*
> 
> - Troy Thompson
> 
> 
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