Does P2 suck up too much in resources for a heavy traffic site?

  • slobizman

    (@slobizman)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    I was about to start using P2 on a site of mine, but I’m concerned about the amount of resources it uses. The website can get up to 20,000 visitors a day, and with some of the comments I’ve read in this forum, it seems I could be asking for trouble P2. Apparently it really sucks up resources due to loading all the home page’s posts’ comments when the home page is displayed, and also the constant checking for new posts and comments periodically.

    Can someone enlighten me on this, as I hate to make the change if it’s going to screw me up.

    I have a dedicated server, but my other site is constant traffic, so I have to be careful.

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  • Thread Starter slobizman

    (@slobizman)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Oh come on…nobody?

    roy-duff

    (@roy-duff)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I haven’t currently used it live yet but on localhost with test content/images etc its loading at 480KB(at least half of this is from images I have added into posts. Plus all posts are displayed) and about 2.5 seconds to load but this is on a empty cache and without using any cache, minifying etc.

    You can test it free on loadimpact.com and it will test up to 50 concurrent, simulated users for free. This would give you a idea for 50 concurrent users then.. if its sky high then your know its not going to work well on your current server and if the load time is low then you have a better idea off where you stand..

    You can optimise the theme remove images you don’t need, use a cache, minify javascript/css (not sure how this theme would react though!)

    Use a CDN and then you can load all JavaScript/CSS, images etc there… Then use a cache like APC for php and database caching for mysql and you should get a better performance.

    Hope that helps..

    roy-duff

    (@roy-duff)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    I run this test again without any pictures from my posts on the frontpage and its now only 90KB in size loading at 900ms on a empty cache.

    Thread Starter slobizman

    (@slobizman)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the tip on loadimpact.com Roy. I’l go check it out.

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