On 2003-09-03 10:46:06 +0100 paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr> wrote:
I've installed Koha on a Celeron 600, with 192MB RAM & 20GB HD. (server & client). The librarian finds it too slow. It's a problem with Perl compiling i think.
In the longer term, there are some tricks we can do to speed this up (such as CGI::SpeedyCGI), but they will require very clean perl code and a bug hunt. I think we've enough on for now with 2.0. That said, the machine above should be fast enough. My development system is only a K6/2 500. Not so long ago I was running really heavy perl on a 486... Perhaps some performance tuning would help? I think there are guides on http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ and http://www.mysql.com/ in addition to the normal distribution guides. A small, lean, server-orientated distribution would be a better choice than Mandrake, for example, or maybe you should try a distribution compiled from source with tuning options. You can compensate for hardware a bit by spending more time on configuration, but I still wouldn't try current koha on less than a Pentium MMX. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/