Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:06:24 -0500 From: Keith Jackson <keith@lsuc.on.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 and HyperNews slow Message-ID: <332D9630.765A@lsuc.on.ca>
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Hi, we recently installed a copy of HyperNews 1.92 on a FreeBSD2.1 box we set up to use as a test web server. We have Apache 1.1.3 installed. Hypertext documents are served up to our PCs using NetScape very quickly. Generally the documents begin arriving within a fraction of a second and complete transferring in a matter of a second or so. We have a small Perl script which takes the input from an HTML form and outputs a search result and this completes in 2 or 3 seconds. But, doing any operation in HyperNews generally takes about 9 seconds to complete (I've timed it repeatedly). HyperNews works fine. I'd just like to reduce the response time down to something more reasonable (on the order of 2 or 3 seconds). I shold mention this FreeBSD box is not heavily used right now. HyperNews is implemented as a series of Perl scripts that access message and response pages and add response indices and image buttons to the page for access and control purposes. It is the work of Daniel Laliberte at NCSA. When I connect to the NCSA site which hosts the HyperNews home page I generally get responses from it completed with 2 or 3 seconds (and that's over the Internet). Is it possible that the slowness of HyperNews on our local FreeBSD box could be improved by fine-tuning the FreeBSD kernel? HyperNews also requires Perl 5.002 and in order to put this quickly on our FreeBSD 2.1 box, I grabbed the binary release for it from a copy of FreeBSD 2.1.6 that we had. As I say, it runs fine except that the 9 second delay between submiting a URL with extra path info and the display of the returning page is excessive. Could I get improvements if we compiled Perl5.002 on this box instead of using the binary release? Our FreeBSD box by the way is a Pentium 90 Dell server with 32 Mbytes of RAM. Thanks for any suggestions you can make.
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