[ic] relatively easy way to double performance

[Dan Browning]

At 07:07 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>     Just screwing around today, reading up on some of the performance stuff
>posted by Mike in the past.  Based on this, I did a test.  If I modify the
>default results.html page to use PREFIX-param (which translates to
>item-param in the results.html) and then modify my searches to use
>rf=sku,category,prod_group,thumb,description,inactive,price I am able to
>double the performance of the default results page according to the results
>returned by ab with a concurrency level of 10 and 50 total requests.  This
>is a relatively easy modification to make (it took me 3 minutes) to gain
>such a substantial performance increase.

Yes.  Note that you can also do rf=* insetad of manually naming, and if you 
add op=eq to the search params that helps too.  However, if you do change 
to PREFIX-param, make sure you modify all other searches on your site 
(advancedsearch.html, etc.) to include rf=*.

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