Common problems

[Mike McGrath]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:30:23AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
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>>  Ray Van Dolson wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:58:39AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
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>>>       
>>>>  I've been meaning to do this for a long time:
>>>>
>>>>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CommonProblems
>>>>
>>>>  Please add to it and make it not stink :)
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Mike, regarding the Wiki Pages Slow Save issue... are their any bugs
>>> filed about this upstream that you are aware of?
>>>
>>> I will do a search, but thought you might be aware of some off the top
>>> of your head.
>>>
>>> I'd be interested to look at the code that does the subscription
>>> handling.  It sure seems like this could be done much much faster, but
>>> maybe things are coded in such a way that it's not intuitive.
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>>>       
>>  Many have looked into it but AFAIK nothing has actually been done.  I'm not 
>>  sure if a ticket even exists for it upstream.  If you've got time please 
>>  please please make it work :)
>>
>>     
>
> Anyone out there run the profiler on a call to notifySubscribers() or
> getSubscribers()?
>
> It doesn't seem the Moin user storage system lends itself to being very
> fast.  Each user seems to be a separate text file which must be parsed.
> Probably would be much faster with a sqlite backend or something, but
> this would obviously take a bit of work.
>
> Perhaps we could hack something in though to make the current process a
> little faster -- at least specifically for finding subscribers and
> doing notifications.
>
> I also wonder if the actual call to _sendNotification() takes a long
> time as well...
>
> Anyways, if no one has done any profiling here, I would like to at
> least do that so we have some actual data as to where the bottleneck
> is.  My test Wiki's are not large enough to give good data on this.
>
> What is the preferred way to go about testing this?  Can someone who
> has access to the wiki server do the profiling for me?  Can I get
> access to it to do it myself?  Or can a copy of all the wikidata be
> made available to me so that I can test on my own systems?
>   

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR/

    -Mike