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Page Loading is too Slow

by Hamid Takesh - Thursday, March 15, 2007, 3:22 PM

Hello.

I am running moodle 1.6 on MS Windows 2k3, IIS, PHP, MySQL, two 2.7GHz, 2GB RAM.

The problem we arw facing is the page loading. The header is loaded... extremely fast! But the remaining of the page, the cources list or the resources list inside a cource is too slow.

Is there any way to make it faster?

I think the problem is that those parts of the pages are inside a <table>, therefore nothing is shown untill it's fully loaded, so should I try to put it into a <div> or there is another solution?

Thanx.

Re: Page Loading is too Slow

by Luis NL - Thursday, March 15, 2007, 11:45 PM

Hi Hamid:

Did you make changes on the source code? maybe there is some kind of exception in the code that makes your platform slow. Maybe you forgot some end tag in the code. Check it.

Best regards,

Luis.

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Re: Page Loading is too Slow

by Visvanath Ratnaweera - Sunday, March 18, 2007, 5:22 AM

> I think the problem is that those parts of the pages are inside a <table>, therefore nothing is shown untill it's fully loaded, so should I try to put it into a <div> or there is another solution?

I wonder whether it would be the right approach.

How could the browser start rendering a big table before the content is there? OK, theorically, if column widths, picture sizes, etc. everything is available, the browser could. Which browser then?

The right approach IMHO is to get the server to deliver fast enough. With 2.7 GHz and 2 GB RAM that shouldn't be very difficult. What sort of loads you are talking about?

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Re: Page Loading is too Slow

by Hamid Takesh - Sunday, March 18, 2007, 2:52 PM

If you are talking about the server load, then that's another problem...

Whenever I'm haveing more then 40 students, the server stops functioning. It goes slower and slower and eventually stops. I've tried everything! I've been reconfiguering the php.ini and my.cnf a thousend times now!

I've never configuered a server before, so all the configurations i've done are based on what I've read on the net in forums of different kind.

I was useing apache before, and the server would go down every 15 minutes with 20-30 students online. Now I'm useing IIS and it can hold up to 40 students. But even with 30-40 it's very slow. If you can help me with the configuration of the server, i'd appriciate it.

Thanx.

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Re: Page Loading is too Slow

by Visvanath Ratnaweera - Monday, March 19, 2007, 9:06 PM

> Whenever I'm haveing more then 40 students, the server stops functioning.

IMHO that _is_ the problem.

Sorry that I can not help you though. I'm just clueless in "closed source" and graphical environments like Microsoft Windows. Compared to the surgical precision of the Unix tools, "debugging" Windows sounds terribly frustrating in my ears.

May be you can try your luck in the forum dedicated to Windows-based servers http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=6799

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Re: Page Loading is too Slow

by Genner Cerna - Friday, March 23, 2007, 5:21 PM

common problem 40 concurrent user... add more ram and tweak apche and mysql.

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