[ic] Upgrade to Interchange-5.7.4 performance issues

David Christensen david at endpoint.com
Thu Feb 11 15:34:41 UTC 2010


On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:10 AM, Jon Jensen wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bill Carr wrote:
>
>> However, 5.7.4 runs much slower. Pages that get served on in under  
>> 5 seconds are taking 10, 20, 30 seconds or longer. The load average  
>> on each host running 5.7.4 goes from under 2 to near 10. I'm  
>> running the rpc mode from interchange.cfg.dist. Configuration is  
>> the same for 5.4.0 and 5.7.4 (besides small changes with actionmap  
>> api). I know 5.7.4 is not a production release. I'm just trying to  
>> bring my setup up to date. Been running a hacked up 5.4.0 for a  
>> while.
>>
>> Any ideas on why this would be or how I should debug it?
>
> I haven't seen any slowdowns like that. My best guess would be that  
> it's related to the new character set encoding stuff. What UTF8- 
> related directives or variables do you have?


There have been reports of slower regexes in some cases when using  
UTF8 strings; in particular unanchored regexes like /.*foo/ will  
sometime take a much longer time to process.  (The IC parser is made  
almost exclusively of regexes, many of which fall into this  
category.)  I believe this is a perl bug, but I'm not sure if this has  
been fixed in later perl versions or not.  What version of Perl/Encode  
are you using?

As a workaround, you can disable the MV_UTF8 as mentioned upthread, or  
try a newer Perl version to see if it has been solved there.

Regards,

David
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