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  • utvara 10:44 pm on January 25, 2010 Permalink |
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    Speed junkies 

    Hi EDO,

    we’ve been messing under the hood again :) At the moment our newest revision on test server is 61 times faster than our live server. Note that this is not a good comparison as live server is generally 10 times faster than test due to better hardware.

    I will have exact data after next sync. You have the output of siege stress test below. To cut it short important things are out live system can deliver 7 pages from cache within a second, our test server can deliver 473 (hope this number will be higher on live server).

    utvara

    Current live system:

    Lifting the server siege… done. Transactions: 465 hits
    Availability: 100.00 %
    Elapsed time: 60.09 secs
    Data transferred: 2.47 MB
    Response time: 1.77 secs
    Transaction rate: 7.74 trans/sec
    Throughput: 0.04 MB/sec
    Concurrency: 13.69
    Successful transactions: 465
    Failed transactions: 0
    Longest transaction: 15.55
    Shortest transaction: 0.04

    Current test system:

    Lifting the server siege… done.
    Transactions: 28424 hits
    Availability: 100.00 %
    Elapsed time: 60.08 secs
    Data transferred: 111.60 MB
    Response time: 0.03 secs
    Transaction rate: 473.10 trans/sec
    Throughput: 1.86 MB/sec
    Concurrency: 14.16
    Successful transactions: 28424
    Failed transactions: 0
    Longest transaction: 15.79
    Shortest transaction: 0.00

     

    • utvara 10:47 pm on January 25, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Did I mention we managed to do this within 4 work days?

      • Cristiano 1:48 pm on January 26, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        These are great improvements and to some extent one can see the difference Earth.org has undergone in the last month or so. GREAT IMPROVEMENT!

    • Rob 10:57 pm on January 25, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      61 times faster!?!! and you say the live server is in general another 10 times faster? Which would result in a 610 times faster experience???

      Wow, I think I need to start wearing my helmet surfing Earth.org!

      • utvara 7:48 am on January 26, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        well I don’t think you will need it :) Since I doubt you can see the difference between 300ms and 20ms. Point is that we can serve more concurrent users without losing speed. Test was carried out with 15 simulated users hammering the websites.

        BTW according to Google Webmaster tools: On average, pages in your site take 3.1 seconds to load (updated on Jan 24, 2010). This is slower than 52% of sites.

        Mid October we were at 15 seconds per page. One week ago at 10 seconds. Hope this latest speed up puts us in top 10-20% of websites (speed that is).

    • valentinyeo 12:06 am on January 26, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      this is awesome. i am super happy about this. i know everyone wants features but this in my op is as important as anything else. lets hope it comes out really quick on the live server and the site is going to be blazing. that will help us with seo since googles recent focus on realtime and speed.
      well done guys. i know julian worked on this a lot too. thanks!!!

    • Mathias 8:26 am on January 26, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Great work! We’re not talkging about a 5% speed increase here… 61 times faster isn’t too bad ;-)

    • Thomas 10:21 am on January 26, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Nice! Makes so much more fun, to surf a fast site! :-)

    • utvara 1:26 pm on January 26, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Getting most popular 1000 travel-guide pages on test server without cache takes 57min once cache is populated that number drops to 33s.

      We managed to connect to google analytics from our server so we will warm up 10000 most popular travel-guide pages after next sync.

      We still have a long way to go till all our pages become blazing fast, but we are getting there.

      utvara

  • julian 10:16 am on January 21, 2010 Permalink |
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    User data searchable soon…working on document generator for the search engine.

     

  • david 4:37 pm on January 19, 2010 Permalink |
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    I made a small improvement in this blog, the login link on the right hand side will redirect you back to this blog when used.

     

  • david 2:40 pm on January 19, 2010 Permalink |
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    Currently squashing bugs.

     

  • david 2:34 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink |
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    We’ve just re-sync’d the live server with all the latest changes:
    - /my-world page removed
    - Tags merged into “Like”
    - Changes in the way FB connects
    - longer cache times, relying on drop sequences
    - and many small bug fixes …

     

    • valentin 2:45 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      david the like button was supposed to be right of the headline. can you fix fo next sync.
      otherwise good job… need to test though. nobody told me like was read for live :(

      • valentin 2:56 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        i think this might actually be @dmitriy s job?

      • david 3:21 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        We are syncing often these days due to all the new features being online. We want to get bugs squashed quick, so expect any change to go live fast.

        • valentinyeo 3:32 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          yes but it came online due to a misunderstanding. nobody has thought it through. the person who was said to have done it says its a misunderstanding… i get asked why i can ‘follow’ people (pops up on my stream) when we have the friendship concept coming up… not good. pls remove asap.q

          • david 3:42 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

            has nothing to do with friends .. this a tool for admins to follow professional writers work. If someone is seeing a button, its because he is an admin.

            • valentinyeo 6:09 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink

              yeah but who developed it? who is working with it? where are the follows going? why are we creating a 2nd paradigm for connecting with people only for admins. one of the next features to come is the friendship connection. that is exactly what this follow is only in both ways… why are we putting alsmot redundant code into our plattform only for such a small userbase… the whole thing makes no sense. i never worked on it. no one can tell me who worked on it… it needs to be removed.

            • david 6:24 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink

              Lets skype this over, surely faster :-)

  • david 8:15 pm on January 11, 2010 Permalink |
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    Fixed a few bits and bobs in the admin tool (mainly when searching for things)

     

  • david 1:23 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink |
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    I’m reviewing german category names to confirm everything is in place.

     

  • david 4:38 pm on October 20, 2009 Permalink |
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    We just finished sync'ing the live serv… 

    We just finished sync’ing the live server with changes in how sitemaps, feeds and solr updates are made by using the workshop/workers concept recently introduced. A new version of CakePHP is also online which will enable us to test php 5.3 soon. All this with a good bunch of bugs fixed on http://www.earth.org.
    Im curious to see how google reacts to the sitemap, ill be keeping an eye on it.

     

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