Any way to make the bugzilla form come up faster?

[Rick Stevens]

Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> Is there a trick for making the bugzilla bug entry form come up faster?  
> E.g., is there a way to specify the fields that have huge drop-down 
> lists as parameters in the URL and prevent the drop-down lists from 
> being loaded?  I discovered that I could specify the initial value of 
> the component list by adding "component=/whatever/" to the URL, but it 
> still loads the whole list.
> 
> It's rather annoying that I have to sit around twiddling my thumbs for 
> 40 seconds (yes, it's really that long; I just timed it) waiting for the 
> page to load every time I want to report a bug.

Smells like an Apache config issue.  We serve tons of stuff ourselves
and have fallen back to Apache using mpm workers and a mod_fastcgi
interface to external PHP processes (managed by php-fpm).  Works a
treat and is much less load on the server.
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