[Koha] Very small library, low-end hardware

[Larry Stamm]

paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr> writes:

    > Rich Churcher wrote:
    >> 1. What is the absolute, barest minimum hardware you would
    >> consider installing Koha on, given that the database is not
    >> likely to be very large?
    >> 
    > 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.  I tried on a 350MHz PC (server
    > only). It's unuseable : 5 seconds for every page, minimum.

My testing box at home is a 266Mhz AMD K-2 with 160Mb RAM.  While I
wouldn't exactly call it speedy, it serves up most pages in less than a
second with a database of 14,000 + entries to search through.

In console mode using a text only browser, it's fast enough to use for
real work.

But I agree that perl seems to be the slowest link in the query chain.
I've played around some with writing gawk scripts to query the MySQL
database and it seems to return the results much faster than perl does.
I've no idea why though.

-- 
Larry Stamm, Chair
McBride and District Public Library
McBride, BC  V0J 2E0
Canada
http://www.mcbridebc.org/library