[MTOS-dev] Profiling MT

Jesse Gardner jesse at plasticmind.com
Thu Feb 7 00:29:33 PST 2008


I wonder if Mark's CacheBlock works on system templates as well?


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On 2/6/08, Bud Gibson <fpgibson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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