Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:28:20 UTC
Running version 1.3.7 on Linux Fedora 2, with Apache 2.0.50, PHP version 4.3.8, running MySQL-max v 4.0.20 Quite frequently Apache chews up all the CPU when Apache serves anything over 10 requests at once, bringing the CPU load up to 99%. From top: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 4902 root 16 0 8064 6392 6268 S 99.3 0.6 2:35 0 httpd I've installed Turck MMCache to help reduce the load and turned on MediaWiki's file caching, neither have been able to fix the problem. I read WikiTravel had similar problems to this with MediaWiki 1.3.x, is there any documentatin on how to fix this?
Give 1.4beta2 a try; in most cases it should render faster than 1.3, and I've added some additional optimization for file cache hits. http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.4_benchmarks
Please test again with the lastest stable version (1.4) eventually try out 1.5 which comes with a new database schema.
Yep, when we moved to 1.4 things improved nicely. I should have updated the bug earlier.
