[Koha] Koha Performance Issue

[Martin House]

Out of curiosity, does the amount of RAM make a significant difference?
I've been trying to troubleshoot performance issues because of both network
lag at our location. In trying to optimize the page-load speed during
checkout, I've also upped the serve RAM to from 1gig to 4gigs. While that
obviously doesn't address actual network lag (eg. bad pings or lost
packets) it can at least help me verify if the issue is with my Koha server
or with the building network. We are in a leased building, and have no
control over the network infrastructure, so if I can rule out the server as
a speed hindrance, then I can restart the conversation with IT.

Thanks,

Martin

Martin House
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
wrote:

> * rfblanchard (rfblanchard at hotmail.com) wrote:
> > I'm building a new koha server to replace our old koha 3.0.0 with koha
> > 16.5.4. The new server has better specs than the old one. Towards the
> end of
> > my work I started doing some basic testing of the screens compared to the
> > old system. I noticed the new system is slower (much slower) than our old
> > 3.0 koha. Basically any screen is 5x to 10x slower on the new version of
> > koha. That includes anything from searching to loading the landing page
> of
> > the opac. I checked on some of the koha demo sites and also noticed they
> are
> > quite slow. Has koha just become bloated over time or have I
> misconfigured
> > something?
> >
> > I didn't build the original server, but I compared apache and mysql
> settings
> > and didn't notice anything that the new install was missing. I tried
> using
> > memcached but that did nothing useful as far as I noticed.
> >
> > Does anyone have any insite into speeding up koha performance? caching?
> etc?
> >
> Koha now uses a database independent layer an ORM (Object relationship
> model).
> This allows (in theory) Koha to be run on different database engines, it
> also allows
> for more Object Oriented code, which a lot of people like.
>
> It does have the downside of being quite a bit slower than straight SQL
> though, this
> accounts for most of the slow down you are noticing.
>
> Did you install Koha via packages? If so, you will want to switch plack on
>
> sudo koha-plack --enable <instancename>
> sudo koha-plack --start <instancename>
>
> Then restart apache. You will want to set up memcache as well. To enable
> caching
> to occur. This should speed things up considerably.
>
> Chris
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