How to make Bugzilla faster on Linux?

[Daniel Berlin]

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 8:40 PM, Jussi Sirpoma wrote:

> On 9.7.2003 3:09 Raghava Rao wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>   I'm using Bugzilla with Apache Webserver, MySQL
>> Database and Perl modules on a Linux m/c. For some
>> reason unknown, when I create a new bug or make
>> changes to an existing one, it takes a long time to
>> process the bug and return with the resulting web
>> page. My question:
>>   1. How can we configure Bugzilla to be any faster?
>>   I tried setting the sendMailNow option to NO. Even
>> then, it is very slow. Any other tweaks I need to take
>> care of?
>>   Any help is appreciated.
>>   Thanks.
>>     Raghava
>
> I've read a couple of times about host name lookup slowing down 
> bugzilla. So you could check how long it takes to send an email to the 
> addresses in one of the slow bugs.
>
> If this takes a long time then you should propably check how long it 
> takes to dig the ip address for the domains you are trying to send the 
> emails.
>
> Also, the latest cvs version does not use the processmail script for 
> sending the mails. So at least mass editing has become a lot faster 
> after the last release.
>

Also, turn off warnings on the script that is taking forever, and see 
if it helps.
logging warnings to the apache log when hostname lookups are on takes 
*forever*.  Like, one warning per bug was taking 4-5 seconds, so a mass 
change of 376 bugs took many minutes.
--Dan