Emoticate plugin dramatically reduces performance
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:06 am
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 number jumps to 51. I can reliably reproduce this issue by benchmarking the server after enabling and disabling the plugin. Is there any reason why this plugin is so slow? (I don't need this plugin, but it is enabled by default, so users could be getting much better performance just by removing this plugin, hence this being posted in the Bugs section.)
--DragonLord
Edit: I've since reduced the number of entries on the main page from 15 to 10 to further improve performance.
With the plugin enabled, I get about 29 requests per second on the front page. When the plugin is disabled, however, that number jumps to 51. I can reliably reproduce this issue by benchmarking the server after enabling and disabling the plugin. Is there any reason why this plugin is so slow? (I don't need this plugin, but it is enabled by default, so users could be getting much better performance just by removing this plugin, hence this being posted in the Bugs section.)
--DragonLord
Edit: I've since reduced the number of entries on the main page from 15 to 10 to further improve performance.