Thanks for taking a lot of effort! I can see the big change now -- it loads finally. Yes, it is not lightning-speed, but it works. The home page now loads withing a couple of seconds (compared to the infinite-loading-state which it had before).
On 9/3/16, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 3. September 2016 01.43.33 Nandakumar Edamana wrote: >> > Done...Does anyone still see extreme slowness? >> >> Thanks for doing that. As Paul said, the new page loads instantly >> while the other pages are still unavailable. However, now we are sure >> that there is no issue with the server core. The problem seems to be >> with our CMS. > > I think it could be just some kind of issue with MoinMoin, and perhaps the > profiling information can be enabled to get an idea of where it is spending > > its time. > >> I strongly suggest replacing the default main page with a simple HTML >> file that shows an overall idea about gNewSense, important (working) >> download links and a message informing that the site is under >> maintenance. Otherwise people coming from Wikipedia and Google will >> hate gNewSense from very beginning. Should I help preparing the page? > > "Hate" might be a bit of a strong word, but I see your point. > > Now, I loaded the RecentChanges page and it was a lot quicker than the main > > page to appear. The RecentChanges page uses dynamic information, but it is > fairly optimised (being a central feature of MoinMoin), whereas the main > page > contains mostly static information and yet takes several times longer to > load > than RecentChanges. > > I loaded the raw text of the main page which, after having looked at the > main > page in its normal form, took place almost instantly: > > http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/HomePage?action=raw > > I also looked at various linked pages in raw form (but not in normal form), > > just to exclude the effects of rendering, image loading, and so on. Some > loaded quickly, others (the Screenshots page) took a long time. It wasn't > clear whether caching was having an effect, either within MoinMoin or at the > > filesystem level, or whether there could be a general resource use problem > that causes parts of MoinMoin to get swapped to disk, or something like > that. > > One thing that could help in profiling is the show_timings setting in the > wiki > configuration: > > https://moinmo.in/HelpOnConfiguration#style > > Note that MoinMoin's caching mechanism should be fairly effective at > "compiling" pages and returning them quickly. It's possible that this > mechanism isn't functioning correctly - dirty caches are possibly the > primary > issue in Moin maintenance - and thus things are a lot slower, but when the > serving up of raw text is slow, I'd suspect something else. (It doesn't > cache > the raw text as far as I know, since that's just a straight copy of the text > > to the response.) > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
