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4 | Optimizing Kallithea performance |
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4 | Optimizing Kallithea performance | |
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7 | When serving a large amount of big repositories, Kallithea can start |
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7 | When serving a large amount of big repositories, Kallithea can start performing | |
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9 | of data from version control systems, here are some tips on how to get the best | |
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12 | Follow these few steps to improve performance of Kallithea system. |
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16 | Kallithea is often I/O bound, and hence a fast disk (SSD/SAN) and plenty of RAM | |
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23 | Tweak beaker cache settings in the ini file. The actual effect of that is | |
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30 | SQLite is a good option when having a small load on the system. But due to | |
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31 | locking issues with SQLite, it is not recommended to use it for larger | |
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34 | Switching to MySQL or PostgreSQL will result in an immediate performance | |
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30 | 4. Scale Kallithea horizontally |
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32 | Scaling horizontally can give huge performance benefits when dealing with |
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42 | Scaling horizontally means running several Kallithea instances and let them | |
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43 | share the load. That can give huge performance benefits when dealing with large | |
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44 | amounts of traffic (many users, CI servers, etc.). Kallithea can be scaled | |
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47 | It is generally possible to run WSGI applications multithreaded, so that | |
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52 | One danger of running multithreaded is that program execution becomes much more | |
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56 | Kallithea can't promise to be thread-safe, just like the embedded Mercurial | |
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65 | that will separate regular user traffic from automated processes like CI |
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68 | 5. Serve static files directly from the web server |
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70 | With the default ``static_files`` ini setting, the Kallithea WSGI application |
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83 | With the default ``static_files`` ini setting, the Kallithea WSGI application | |
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