or at least that’s apparently how a workmate explained thunder to his very young child….heh. Poor kid is going to be diving under a desk any time the weather turns bad…(you don’t even want to know about the explanation for hail)
Anyway, that was completely irrellevant and has nothing to do with what I was going to say, it’s just that there’s a fairly impressive thunder storm going on right now that made me think of it.
I’ve been poking at the CSFG site a bit more, mostly from the point of view of attempting to understand its inner workings a bit better. I’ve still got my problem with images, but I noticed I’m not alone as some has posted the exact same problem on their forums. I added a “me too”, so hopefully I’ll find enlightenment sooner or later. (I’m not sure if the problem is a design flaw, or a lack of understanding on my part – or both).
Apart from that I’ve also been playing with a PHP Accelerator, called PHP Accelerator (I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds it impossible to come up with interesting names…heh).
Before installing it, running apachebench on the CSFG front page resulted in scores of 0.65 pages per second with caching disabled, 1.44 with view caching enabled, and 2.28 with all caching and template compiling turned on.
That’s fairly slow, but bearable. The server’s pretty pathetic, and none of the sites I plan to use it for are high volume. And it’s a few times faster than I could ever get Plone working on the same machine…
However, with PHP Accelerator properly installed, those numbers go to 0.93 pages per second with no caching, 2.82 pages per second with view caching only, and 7.58 pages per second with all caching and templated compiling.
A 230% improvement is definitely nothing to be sneezed at, and 7.5 pages per second is pretty good for a PHP application on that box – Gallery only manages about 2.5, and it’s a much simpler application.
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