Caching Trouble

Thursday 30 March 2006 7:49:29 am

I must be doing something wrong because the server is performing CRAZY slow. I have Exponential running on its own server with NO traffic (yet). The server statistics are

OS: Fedora Core 4
RAM: 1 GB
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Web Server: Apache2

I am running APC 3.0.10

I have read the various performance threads but have not seen success. Below are the settings that I have done. I know something is wrong because I don't see any files being written to [docroot]/static where the static views should be written to. I am fairly sure that it is not the problem of my templates because the admin interface is also intolerably slow. Does anyone have any ideas?

settings/override/site.ini.append.php:
[OverrideSettings]
Cache=enabled

[TemplateSettings]
TemplateCache=enabled
TemplateCompile=enabled
TemplateOptimization=enabled

[ContentSettings]
CacheDir=cache
ViewCaching=enabled
StaticCache=enabled
================================

settings/override/staticcache.ini.append.php:
[CacheSettings]
AlwaysUpdateArray[]=/*
CachedURLArray[]=/services*
StaticStorageDir=static
=========================================

settings/siteaccess/site_user/site.ini.append.php
[ContentSettings]
ViewCaching=enabled
TranslationList=
StaticCache=enabled

[TemplateSettings]
TemplateCache=enabled
TemplateCompile=enabled
Debug=disabled

[OverrideSettings]
Cache=enabled

Thursday 30 March 2006 8:11:30 am

Also, if you run the 'bin/php/makestaticcache.php' with debug and verbose flags you will get a warning if you can't find the pages to generate the static cache from. After you have run this script successfully ther shuold be files and directories in your /static-folder.

Thursday 30 March 2006 9:36:30 am

Yep. Acually I have ;)

Fiddle a little with settings in 'staticcache.ini' especially HostName. For me the wrong url was accessed.

To see what url is accessed when the makestaticcaches.php script is run i did a little hack modifing one of the kernel files...

# diff Exponential-3.7.3/kernel/classes/ezstaticcache.php public_html/kernel/classes/ezstaticcache.php
333c333
< eZDebug::writeNotice( 'Could not grab content, is the hostname correct and Apache running?', 'Static Cache' );
---
> eZDebug::writeNotice( $fileName . ': Could not grab content, is the hostname correct and Apache running?', 'Static Cache' );

This allows me to see what really was accessed but of course you should never alter the kernel code as these changes will be overwritten if you upgrade...