[Nepal] [Fwd: Fedora-commons-users Digest, Vol 16, Issue 20]

Sun Jun 29 03:37:39 EDT 2008

check out what Christian of fez recommends for optimizing our e-pustakalaya
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:47:30 +1000
From: Christiaan Kortekaas <c.kortekaas at library.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-commons-users] nginx  + fedora + fez
To: <fedora-commons-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <C48AE642.C584%c.kortekaas at library.uq.edu.au>
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Hi Bryan

You might like to use the latest SVN version of Fez (we use it in
production). The performance is a lot better as it has the option of using
Apache Solr for searches/indexing (rather than MySQL fulltext indexing).

See http://fezdemo.library.uq.edu.au for a look at it with 150,000 test
objects - Solr takes it without any problems.

> I don't understand how apache, fez's php, and tomcat play together and
> how fez + fedora serves up static files. Does tomcat get involved in
> serving up static files?

Fez talks SOAP+REST to Fedora and REST-like queries to Solr, so they talk
using webservices.

Cheers,
Christiaan

On 27/06/08 4:53 PM, "Bryan Berry" <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Phil! thanks I may very well ask for your help.
> 
> Right now the performance of my fez + fedora server is pretty horrible.
> I am linux sysadmin but new to optimizing web apps and my expereience w/
> Fedora is limited to installing it numerous times.
> 
> can you give any recommendations on identifying the performance
> bottlenecks? Right now I only know how to use ab and top
> 
> later today I hope to play w/ jmeter, mytop, and whatever else I can
> find.
> 
> I don't understand how apache, fez's php, and tomcat play together and
> how fez + fedora serves up static files. Does tomcat get involved in
> serving up static files?
> 
> Bryan
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:20:14 -0500
> From: Phil Cryer <phil.cryer at mobot.org>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-commons-users] nginx with Fedora + fez?
> To: Fedora <fedora-commons-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID: <1214493614.20571.12.camel at s2ua8140gyb.mobot.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 20:39 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
>> I am thinking about trying nginx w/ my fedora + fez installation.
>> Apache2.2 just dies when I throw a lot of concurrent connections at it.
>> 100+ and I only have 2 GB of RAM on my server
>> 
>> I have used nginx before w/ a rails app and been very happy.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any advice in this regard? thanks
> 
> Bryan
> I'm running nginx on Debian (Lenny), and it proxies requests to Fedora,
> and does all the virtual hosting for the other subdomains on the server.
> I do have Fez installed, but not fully configured yet - I've no doubt
> it'll work fine once I have all of the required software installed, hope
> to have it up tomorrow.
> 
> I used Lighttpd as an Apache replacement for years, but moved to nginx
> for all my sites a few months back, I'm a big fan; its low headroom,
> capabilities and active dev community won me over.  I'm happy to help
> with setup/config/whatever, just let me know.
> 
> Also, if you're looking at lots of concurrent requests you can use nginx
> as a reverse proxy, or better yet, install Varnish (think of it as a
> newer Squid) to be a caching reverse proxy sitting in front of your
> webserver layer, with load balancing options.
> 
> P

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Christiaan Kortekaas
Senior Library Open Sorcerer
Library Technology Service
The University of Queensland, Australia QLD 4072
Telephone : (+61) (7) 3346 4337
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:55:35 -0500
From: "Phil Cryer" <Phil.Cryer at mobot.org>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-commons-users] nginx  + fedora + fez
To: "Christiaan Kortekaas" <c.kortekaas at library.uq.edu.au>
Cc: fedora-commons-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <1214578535.19895.15.camel at s2ua8140gyb.mobot.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 18:47 +1000, Christiaan Kortekaas wrote:
> Hi Bryan
> 
> You might like to use the latest SVN version of Fez (we use it in
> production). The performance is a lot better as it has the option of using
> Apache Solr for searches/indexing (rather than MySQL fulltext indexing).
> 
> See http://fezdemo.library.uq.edu.au for a look at it with 150,000 test
> objects - Solr takes it without any problems.

Christiaan
This looks great, I'd like to try out the SVN, but can't hit it.  What
am I doing wrong? 

phil at s2ua8140gyb:~$ svn co svn://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/fez/trunk
svn: Can't connect to host 'dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au': Connection
refused
phil at s2ua8140gyb:~$ svn co http://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/fez/trunk
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/fez/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/fez/trunk': 405 Method Not Allowed
(http://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au)
phil at s2ua8140gyb:~$ svn co https://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/fez/trunk
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/fez/trunk'
svn: PROPFIND of '/fez/trunk': 405 Method Not Allowed
(https://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au)
phil at s2ua8140gyb:~$ 

Grabbing the tarball from the WebSVN now, but would like to use it as
svn.  Also, does this work better with 2.2.2 or 3.0betas?

Thanks

P

> > I don't understand how apache, fez's php, and tomcat play together and
> > how fez + fedora serves up static files. Does tomcat get involved in
> > serving up static files?
> 
> Fez talks SOAP+REST to Fedora and REST-like queries to Solr, so they talk
> using webservices.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christiaan
> 
> 
> On 27/06/08 4:53 PM, "Bryan Berry" <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Phil! thanks I may very well ask for your help.
> > 
> > Right now the performance of my fez + fedora server is pretty horrible.
> > I am linux sysadmin but new to optimizing web apps and my expereience w/
> > Fedora is limited to installing it numerous times.
> > 
> > can you give any recommendations on identifying the performance
> > bottlenecks? Right now I only know how to use ab and top
> > 
> > later today I hope to play w/ jmeter, mytop, and whatever else I can
> > find.
> > 
> > I don't understand how apache, fez's php, and tomcat play together and
> > how fez + fedora serves up static files. Does tomcat get involved in
> > serving up static files?
> > 
> > Bryan
> > 
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:20:14 -0500
> > From: Phil Cryer <phil.cryer at mobot.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-commons-users] nginx with Fedora + fez?
> > To: Fedora <fedora-commons-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Message-ID: <1214493614.20571.12.camel at s2ua8140gyb.mobot.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> > 
> > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 20:39 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
> >> I am thinking about trying nginx w/ my fedora + fez installation.
> >> Apache2.2 just dies when I throw a lot of concurrent connections at it.
> >> 100+ and I only have 2 GB of RAM on my server
> >> 
> >> I have used nginx before w/ a rails app and been very happy.
> >> 
> >> Does anyone have any advice in this regard? thanks
> > 
> > Bryan
> > I'm running nginx on Debian (Lenny), and it proxies requests to Fedora,
> > and does all the virtual hosting for the other subdomains on the server.
> > I do have Fez installed, but not fully configured yet - I've no doubt
> > it'll work fine once I have all of the required software installed, hope
> > to have it up tomorrow.
> > 
> > I used Lighttpd as an Apache replacement for years, but moved to nginx
> > for all my sites a few months back, I'm a big fan; its low headroom,
> > capabilities and active dev community won me over.  I'm happy to help
> > with setup/config/whatever, just let me know.
> > 
> > Also, if you're looking at lots of concurrent requests you can use nginx
> > as a reverse proxy, or better yet, install Varnish (think of it as a
> > newer Squid) to be a caching reverse proxy sitting in front of your
> > webserver layer, with load balancing options.
> > 
> > P
> 
-- 
Bryan W. Berry
Systems Engineer
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org