My gallery have VERY bad/slow response time.
I got own testing server with xinXP & IIS + PHP + mySQL + IamgeMagick ; Celeron1100 with 256MB ram and 100Mbit LAN.
I tried also some other galleries (Gallery, 4iamges,...) and they ain't so bad... Did anyone allready compared speed with other galleris?
Page is loading for a long time (from 2 to 10 sec!) - meanwhile page is white. Once page start's to load elements all runs fine. (That's happening on all pages!)
Is Coppermine a bit slower (in intitalization) or is just an my fault!?
You can try/see it on url: http://matic.streznik.org/gallery but my "outside" connection ain't fast - ADSL. I mostly use this server for my internal experiments - somekinda intranet.
From what I see, the speed seems to be OK.
Only the pictures seem to show up a bit slow, but that's probably coz I'm far away.
I have a huge coppermine installation runnning on a celeron 500 with 256 RAM, and it runs pretty fast too, so your hardware shouldn't be a problem.
Try the default theme, and see if it still runs slow.
I found 1.2.0 to be extremely slow too, until I uninstalled Norton Systemworks Pro 2004. After that, response time was excellent.
I'm not sure which component was interfering but I'll try to figure it out. If I do, I'll post a follow up.
what is Norton Systemworks Pro 2004 good for? Is it some personal firewall? Most internet security suites can be configured to trust certain sites (mostly cookie/privacy related).
GauGau
Quote from: "gaugau"what is Norton Systemworks Pro 2004 good for? Is it some personal firewall? Most internet security suites can be configured to trust certain sites (mostly cookie/privacy related).
SystemWorks is Symantec's suite of products, none of which are related to firewalls. It includes:
- Norton Antivirus: Self explanitory
- Norton Utilities: Disk scan, system info, etc.
- Norton Password Manager: New program to store personal info, credit cards, etc. Also helps you to fill in web forms with your own personal info rather than typing it each time
- Go Back: Restore your PC to a state it was previously in case of a crash
- CleanSweep: Uninstall apps and other unneeded files
- Norton Ghost: (Pro Only) Emergency disk backup (creates full image of disk rather than file by file, including partitions)
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With all that being said, I typically upgrade each year to get continued anti-virus protection and for Ghost, which I like to use in order to fully backup my drive to a secondary drive.
I use Norton Utilities once in a while and have never installed CleanSweep or Go Back until this version. I thought I'd give them a try. But as I said, something was seriously interfering with the speed of access to Coppermine. Once fully uninstalled, the speed returned. I may install one component of SystemWorks at a time to see which item is causing the slowdown.
Since the Norton products are quite popular with PC users, I thought that this information would be useful, especially when they're seeing such poor performance from Coppermine.
That's what I heard from a lot of people: Norton products tend to over-protect your pc, slowing it considerably down (untill a complete freeze). I use Norton Ghost at my Job (DOS-Bootdisk-version), which is fine for me to create hard disk images, but I wouldn't trust the rest of Norton's products any further than I could spit a rat.
Try some real virus scanners (I prefer TrendMicro's OfficeScan)...
GauGau