I'm loving the Sandbox templates, and particularly the Moo-Point theme - delightful, simple layout. However, I'm seeing some very strange performance characteristics.
With three entries and one post in the system, rebuilds are taking usually between two and three minutes; except when they take 10 seconds, or time out with a 500 error. I'm caching template modules, and running Widgets as PHP Includes.
Caveats: shared host (Dreamhost - yes, I know), MT4.21, running under FastCGI. This is a fresh MT install on the same server (and database server) as my primary blog, which is also running 4.21 under FastCGI. That blog is using Mid-Century templates, and I'm seeing rebuild times of 4-5 minutes. With 1500+ posts in the system.
Chances are this is just a flaky overloaded server on a shared host, but I thought I'd post in case anyone else is seeing odd performance issues with the Sandbox templates.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Just out of curiosity... are you doing the rebuilds back to back to see if the one set is causing problems while the other is working fine?
No, and that's a good thought - though I'm trying to keep the number of full rebuilds of my main blog as low as possible, since it always strikes me as a risky prospect.
I just tried enabling performance logging on my install, and rebuild the Sandbox-template site. On cursory inspection it looks like the Author archives template that's taking the bulk of the time -- I'll pay close attention to it as I go through customising this afternoon.