Hey, I just rendered [[Barack Obama]] in about 6 seconds. I haven't tested it for several months, but in the post-Lua era I've generally gotten around 12-15 seconds. (Prior to Lua citations, it was 30 seconds.) I don't know is HHVM is the whole story, but that's a fabulous improvement towards the usability of our largest pages.
-Robert Rohde On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > This is fantastic. Great job team and do put up a blog post about this. > > --tomasz > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto > <glavage...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > it's been quite a journey since we started working on HHVM, and last > > week (November 25th) HHVM was finally introduced to all users who didn't > > opt-in to the beta feature. > > > > Starting on monday, we started reinstalling all the 150 remaining > > servers that were running Zend's mod_php, upgrading them from Ubuntu > > precise to Ubuntu trusty in the process. It seemed like an enormous task > > that would require me weeks to complete, even with the improved > > automation we built lately. > > > > Thanks to the incredible work by Yuvi and Alex, who helped me basically > > around the clock, today around 16:00 UTC we removed the last of the > > mod_php servers from our application server pool: all the non-API > > traffic is now being served by HHVM. > > > > This new PHP runtime has already halved our backend latency and page > > save times, and it has also reduced significantly the load on our > > cluster (as I write this email, the average cpu load on the application > > servers is around 16%, while it was easily above 50% in the pre-HHVM > era). > > > > The API traffic is still being partially served by mod_php, but that > > will not be for long! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Giuseppe > > -- > > Giuseppe Lavagetto > > Wikimedia Foundation - TechOps Team > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ops mailing list > > o...@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ops > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
