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Sandbox templates & performance

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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

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  • 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.

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