We have cache ... wooo

Happy to report the server has now been upgraded to support the latest Wincache module which I've now enabled.

It's an Opcode/File/Travelsal caching system which should cut down page generation times by about half and stop some of the freezing which has been going on recently

 

[grimwau]

Nice work, I have to say that I have suffered quite a bit from this and wondered if it was my BT (up to 8MB) connection.

However it was almost as bad at home on Virgin XXL (50MB) to the point that I stopped my "friends on line" add on, thinking that that may be the problem. Guess I can re-enable that option now.

Cheers.

 

[ben]

There were actually 3 issues:

1) The non-caching (now fixed)
2) One of the RAID drives is down (will be fixed on Sunday)
3) That chatbar is quite intense (being moved to dedicated machine in a few weeks)

The cache system along though has reduced CPU load from around 30% to 10% though

 

[arc]

nice work

 

[Focus Owner]

iv got a bug with pages not loading

 

[ben]

Care to elaborate?

 

[grimwau]

2) One of the RAID drives is down (will be fixed on Sunday)

Ben, I see you have it sorted now, nice one.

 

[Ucof]

One for us sad geeks: What RAID setup is it?

 

[ben]

1. When I first got the machines I couldn't afford 0+1 - and now I when I want to move up to that, I find out the chassis isn't big enough

 

[custard]

my chassis is plenty big

 

[Adrian Bravo]

Not enough U's?

 

[ben]

Nope.

Even worse, I've been monitoring the disk performance and we're getting too many requests at a time, meaning the disk queue is getting kinda long.

Need to upgrade to SaS - but again, chassis doesn't support.

Might need a bit of a rebuild here .... :chin: