[Koha] Very small library, low-end hardware

[paul POULAIN]

MJ Ray wrote:

> On 2003-09-03 10:46:06 +0100 paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at 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.

Mandrake is OK for server. You just need a few tuning with /etc/my.cnf.
BUT, maybe the problem comes from MDK9.1, which is the system i installed.
It goes with Apache 2.0, NOT with 1.3.
I already had some problems with 2.0, maybe it's slow on "old" PC ? any 
idea anyone ?

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)