New Server

Posted by Dimitrij Denissenko on July 30, 2008 | Other | 7 comments

Good news everyone! Retrospectiva (finally) moved to a new (proper) server.

After many performance problems I decided to switch my hosting provider. The first impression is really, really good. The response times are much better and I hope to be able demonstrate how well Retrospectiva actually performs.

I also switched my setup from ningx/mongrel to apache/passenger, a step I would like to recommend to everyone else. I am not sure about the performance, the differences seem to be marginal, but the memory allocation is simply superb.

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Seb

Aug 02 2008 * 13:06

Do you mean that you switch to Ruby Enterprise Edition speaking about the memory allocation improvements ?
I just discovered Retrospectiva and it looks great, I think I will switch from Trac soon. Thanks for the hard work !

Aug 04 2008 * 20:41

No, I didn't switch to the Enterprise Edition, just to Passenger! Before you switch, wait a few more weeks, a completely new Retrospectiva is coming up soon...

Seb

Aug 06 2008 * 10:43

oki cool ! I'm waiting for it :)

Aug 28 2008 * 19:42

What was the old provider and the new one?

Sep 03 2008 * 08:00

During stresstesting on one of my company's projects, Apache+Passenger was even slower in terms of requests per second even than CGI, that's why we stick to Nginx+Thin.

Nov 18 2008 * 16:20

I'm having terrible performance. Tried webrick, fcgi, mongrel, passenger, but neither gave needed results.

Problem is mostly when opening tickets themselves or tickets list. Ruby is taking up 100% cpu and stays that way for some seconds until the page finally loads. Could it be related to ruby/rails or some other versions?

Nov 19 2008 * 12:40

Jaanus, I have rewritten Retrospectiva using the latest standards and version. The new version is due to be released within the next few weeks.

It should resolve your performance problems.