[MTOS-dev] Profiling MT

[Bud Gibson]

Yes, mt-search.cgi generates the pages completely on the fly.  In the most
recent release, some performance optimizations were made for the search
templates.  Byrne mentioned pulling out the comment counts.  Generally,
keeping the MT template tags down to a minimum will reduce rebuild times by
cutting database queries and computations.

Bud

On Feb 6, 2008 11:46 PM, Dave Sole <David.Sole at infotech.monash.edu.au>
wrote:

>  Fair point,
> It was those first 3 items on that page that caught my eye and seemed
> relevant to your question.
>
> I'm not sure about mt.cgi , but the mt-search.cgi seems to rebuild the
> whole page at runtime from the template.
> I suppose a quick test would be to change the template without publishing
> and see if the search page reflects the changes.
>
> But if that's true, then rebuild-based performance tuning is still
> relevant.
>
> Apart from identifying the bottlenecks with the profiler , you could also
> check your host's logs and see if the cgi scripts are being flooded from
> somewhere
> Perhaps from search engine spiders that are following the links to dynamic
> rss feeds, which also use the mt-search script.
> If that was the case, a line in your site's robots file or denying access
> with .htaccess would do the trick.
>
> D
>
>
>
> Andy Lester wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:16 PM, Dave Sole wrote:
>
>
>
>  Have you tried the suggestions at :
> http://lifewiki.net/sixapart/MTPerformanceTuning
>
>  Everything on there, unless I'm reading it wrong, is about speed of
> rebuilds.  I'm worried about the amount of performance hit on mt- search.cgi and mt.cgi from web clients.
>
> xoxo,
> Andy
>
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