[ic] Very, Very slow check out - possible PGP problem

Mon Sep 10 20:58:01 2001

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 08:18:31PM -0400, Jim Balcom wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, mareks66 wrote:
> 
> m>>I installed a new - out of the box - Linux Mandrake 8.0, installed
> 
> I am glad that you were able to get Mandrake to install. I've got 8.0 and it
> refused to install. I paid over $60 for mine, it wouldn't install, and
> support was ridiculous. But, that's neither here nor there for your problem.
> 
> m>>all works lightning fast (serching, browsing) but when I hit "check out", I
> m>>have to wait for 60 s for a reply. No errors, but it realy last so long.
> m>>What I have observed, is:
> 
> You need to have a REALLY fast server. I have mine on a 1.2Ghz CPU with 512
> megs of RAM and there are still some delays, even over a LAN.

That's very misleading.  Sure more RAM is better.

It's my experience that performance is almost entirely architectural - the
architecture of your site, NOT the hardware; eg we get about the same 
performance on a P75 as we do on a PIII whatever.  How you index the 
data, what are the joins, what are the caches, how do you index it, 
how do you build tables or do you build tables at all, caches again,
how do you massage your data, any one of those dwarfs (dwarves? nahhhh) 
any performance issues in mv/ic itself.

And yes, once all of that works nicely, if you send a few layers of nested
tables, then it's all wasted without a fast client machine.

> 
> So much of IC is being done on the client side, rather than on the server.
> If the client side is on a slow machine with limited RAM, then constructing
> the pages will take a while.

Hmmmmm?????  I guess I am out of date.

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