Why EmacsWiki is slow (and a plea for Perl/mod_perl help)

When trying to reach out to the Perl community, don't use hackernews. Use irc.perl.org, blogs.perl.org, perlmonks.org or perl-community.de

(Also a website that loads would be useful. ;) )

A little bit of context (since the site isn't loading): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kNzAPR9...

EmacsWiki isn't loading either.

There's a long term plan to switch the wiki to being hosted on Emacs/Elnode. People could help out, especially with corner cases of the rendering. The repo is: https://github.com/aidalgol/elwiki

Note that we don't expect to do this quickly. Maybe we could get it up as a readonly mirror quite quickly.

Right now the issue is getting enough of the wiki cached that we're not under siege.

I'd suggest putting up nginx as a reverse proxy to Apache. I had a situation sort of like this; under heavy load, Apache would have issues with semaphores that was hard to deal with. (Someone had handled the OOM-killing with a watchdog to respawn it.) For a large number of concurrent connections, nginx was much better, though that may have been due to the old MPM we were using - each connection tied up dozens of megs of memory in Apache, but maybe the request size-worth in nginx.

Dump mod_perl and use nginx/Starman. I've never looked back. Also Perl Dancer is pretty sweet too.

Time to switch to guile.