[pmwiki-users] Large wiki's

[bram]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:43:37AM +0200, bram wrote:
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>>Just a note on the performance of large wiki's:
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>>http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/FlatFileAdvantages
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>>I created a 8500 file wiki for fun and testing. Basic pagehandling is fine
>>no performance issues. Search is acceptable. However creating the
>>.linkindex file from scratch is a problem. The host I run the site on (and
>>my test-machine) has a time out of 30 seconds. I disabled the linkindex,
>>however no backlinks ( pagelist link={$FullName}) are to slow.
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>Well, to get the initial .linkindex file created one can
>(temporarily) extend the PHP timeout to something larger, e.g., with
>the following in local/config.php:
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>    set_time_limit(60);
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>However, I think I'm going to address this problem by setting a time
>limit on .linkindex, say, 10-15 seconds (controlled by a config
>variable, of course).  So, after working 10-15 seconds on updating
>.linkindex with new information, the system stops with what it has
>done so far and continues on to normal page generation.
>
>So, on systems that are starting with a large initial set of pages,
>generation of the .linkindex file is spread over several page 
>accesses.  Then once .linkindex is generated everything goes speedily
>after that.
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>How's that sound?
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>Pm
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Sounds great,

I can live without the linkindex, however there might be large wiki's
with the same problem.

I'm not sure I can change the php-timeout. I will try it.