[166] in World Wide Web
Re: why is www so slow?
ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 22 02:13:08 1993
I would say that if the WWW server responds quickly on a public Maxine,
but slowly on www.mit.edu, one could try running it with a higher
priority. Most things RTFM does are batch, and people don't notice
whether it's slow or fast; WWW is an exception.
Also, there are some perl profiling packages which can be used to
determine what the bottleneck is. One is ``pprof,'' which I
have just installed in /afs/sipb/contrib/perl. It's a little buggy, but
it tells you something about what routines are being called frequently and
and how much user and system time they are taking up.
