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Thursday 20 May 2004 6:07:19 am
Hi,
ez3.4 beta2:
I am a man without fear and so I switched my sites to use the template compiling feature. (Okay, I have no fear, but I am not silly, I made this at 2:00 am in the night ...)
Some experience report:
My environment:
redhat 7.1 / php 4.3.6 / mysql 4.1.1a / turck accelarator
Installed siteaccesses: 8 All site accesses uses the same var-dir and the same db. There are around 35.000 content objects, most of them are user-accounts. I turned on the template-compiling feature at all sites but one because of a strange bug (I've reported that in the bug reports already) - only at this specific site, the output of $module_result.content don't work, if the current page is uncached. So, I uploaded the changed site.ini.appends, turned the feature on. (Before I do this, I made a big grin because I know what will happens to my server ... and - of course - my server would shot me, if he could.) Okay, I was right. Server load: 25 - rien ne va plus. A page creation lasted 7 up to 10 minutes. My server runs slightly mad. It lasts about 2 hours at my installation to calm down the server load. (At 4:00 am, server load was down at 0.5 up to 1.0) The reason of that high-load was the creation of the "compiled template files". (I mentionend that already some times ago in the bug report. Because of that behaviour that feature isn't usable at a production sites). So, at 4:00am there were around 1.400 files (!) in the template/compiled directory. Total size: 50 MB (!). (So you can't use any php-accellarator for that directory, too many files, too large) The file size from that cache files are 1KB up to 516KB (!). Now (at 15:00pm) I made a quick check at the system, the server load is down at 0.5. So, that is "stable".
Some notes:
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a) If you want to use that feature, only activate it at night and only activate it if you have some sadistic or masochistic minds)
b) There is a change to optimize that feature, some comments:
Reduce the amount of "compiled" files:
At my installation I use mostly the standard-template files which are in the standard template directory. But the template-compiler produces versions for each site-access.
Example:
The compiled version of the "<br />"-ezxml-tag is
$text .= "<br />";
In the template-compile-directory, there are 7 br.php files which has the same content. So I am sure that you can reduce the total amount of template-cache-files from 1.400 down to around 600 (in my case).
-) Content of the cache file.
As I mentionend, there are some files which has a size of 500KB (6.200 lines of code!)
I examined the code of that files. They also contain "redundant data". The most lines of that "mega" files are array-definitions of $phpScriptArray. The content of that $phpScriptArray-variable is mostly the same. If you strip off the $phpScriptArray definitions of that compiled-file, you save around 2.000 lines (!) So, my suggestion is: Put all file-locations which are defined in that $phpScriptArray to an external include-file. -) A "precompiler" script is necerssary. That script should do the compilation job e.g. in a cron-job. I hope that report helps ...
Kind regards,
Emil.
Best wishes,
Georg.
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http://www.schicksal.com Horoskop website which uses eZ Publish since 2004
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