<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Tomas Doran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobtfish@bobtfish.net">bobtfish@bobtfish.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Francesc Romŕ i Frigolé wrote:<br>
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The applications I'm writing are expected to have a relatively small number of users. From my experience so far the performance is quite good on a shared hosting as long as I serve the static content from outside Catalyst. Otherwise performance degrades significantly since each user has to deal with a few static files that weight a few MB each.<br>
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Hmm, well, this strikes me as weird.<br>
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I have a 100Mb link (shared with other people) between myself and my live environment, and I thought I'd do a very quick test.<br>
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I tarred up 182Mb of crap.<br>
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Static apache: 11.19M/s<br>
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Put into a newly generated TestApp in root/static, running with the development server: 11.18M/s<br>
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So I think you're doing something severely non-optimum (or your shared hosting machines are totally swamped) if you're seeing significant performance degredation.<br>
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Do you see the same issues when testing locally, or just and your shared host, and what technique are you using to serve these static files?<div class="im"><br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><br>Thanks for taking the time for testing this. I did my tests some months ago with smaller files (1-5 MB) and I don't remember the exact results now, but I clearly remember that it made a very significant difference. Both perceptually and numerically. Since the deployment documentation recommends not serving static files with catalyst I assumed it was normal.<br>
<br>I won't have time today, but I tomorrow I'll do more tests and report the results<br><br>cheers<br>Francesc<br><br><br><br><br>