By "requests per second", I mean the rate at which the blog's home page can be generated and served to users, measured using benchmark program called Siege. It is inversely proportional to the time it takes to generate the page.

--DragonLord

I'm running Serendipity on a Linode 2GB server and I've been experiencing poor performance. However, as soon as I disable the Emoticate plugin, performance jumps dramatically. With the plugin enabled, I get about 29 requests per second on the front page. When the plugin is disabled, however, that nu...

I've identified the cause of this problem. It turns out OPcache (a PHP accelerator) was causing the problem. I've replaced it with APC, and it now works.

In any case, this is probably a bug. Can you add some information regarding PHP accelerators/opcode caches to the documentation?

--DragonLord

Turning off SSL does not help, and neither the Apache logs nor the PostgreSQL logs indicate any errors. I'll patch the configuration file with the debug function shortly.

--DragonLord

Serendipity 1.7.8 with PHP 5.4.20 and PostgreSQL 9.2.4 backend on openSUSE 13.1. All communication with the server is over HTTPS. For some reason, when I try to save settings for any plugin (not just Spam Protector), they are reverted to the previous settings, despite S9y confirming that the setting...

Just applied the patch. It works.

--DragonLord

Serendipity 1.7.7 with PHP 5.4.20 and PostgreSQL 9.2.4 backend, on openSUSE 13.1. All communication with the server is over HTTPS. For some reason, when I try to save a blog entry, the software confirms that it is saved, but it neither appears in the blog itself nor in the list in "Edit Entries...