performance issues
I tried turning on Performance caching a week or two ago. What a disaster. MacDesktops content is simply not compatible with performance caching. I tried to turn it back off again a couple of days into the experiment, but it appears that if any domain name has it turned on, then all domains are affected by it. Or maybe changing the setting within the Server Admin (Tiger Server) application just doesn’t change the setting to the webperfcache application on the fly.
Anyway, I managed to kill webperfcache today, and the server load dropped immediately from about 20 to about 6. It’s down below 3 now that we’re well outside of peak hours. My apologies for taking the site offline for a several minutes during that process. I hope that this will translate into an improved user experience. MacDesktops is still being served over those two unimpressive DSL connections, so performance won’t improve tremendously, regardless. But it should get at least a bit better.
I am in talks with a few different companies about hosting and hope to get that resolved very soon. Cross your fingers.
