Thanks for the replies, both on-list and private. I can now confirm that my problems had *nothing* to do with Cherokee. I failed to increase my swap space when the memory on my VPS was expanded. So I was running a 2:1 ratio of RAM to swap. Yikes! Remarkably, everything ran well, even uWSGI. But it should come as no surprise that adding PHP -- the foundation of Wordpress -- quickly pushed my server over the edge. I increased swap to a 1:1 match with RAM and -- voilà! -- problem solved. Old lesson relearned: when thrashing, check the virtual memory balance.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:05 PM, C. Mundi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm interested to hear from anyone who has deployed wordpress on cherokee. > I have set up a trial system: > > ubuntu10 x64 VPS with sub-40ms pings from my browser > cherokee 1.05 > mysql 5.1.37 > php 5.2.10 with CGI/FastCGI and memory_limit=64M > wordpress 3.0 > > This is a single instance of wordpress, embedded in a subdirectory of one > of several virtual servers hosted on this box, per > http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook_wordpress.html > > The wordpress site performance is **horrible** out of the box. Unusable. > > My django apps (on one of the other virtual servers) are snappy, and the > CPU never gets over 5%. And phpmyadmin (embedded in its own directory on > the same virtual server as wordpress) runs fine as always. > > The system is under *very* light load -- its just for testing. > > Admittedly, this is the first time I've installed wordpress in over a year, > and all my past experience with wordpress is on apache. I kind of doubt > that WP3 is suddenly worse than earlier versions of WP. > > I may try to serve wordpress from apache and see if maybe WP has been tuned > for apache in some way. > > As I said, I'm interested to hear from anyone who is serving WP with > cherokee, how well its working and what you did to tune it up. > > Thanks! > > >
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