Re: [Koha] Koha slowness and server hardware

2014-07-17 Thread Fridolin SOMERS
Hie, We know the disk IO performance can be very bad on VMware. It will set MySQL slower. Consider using sysbench to mesure the performance : https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/sysbench For MySQL : you will be given advices by http://mysqltuner.com/. Personnaly, we use LXC as virtualizer, it

Re: [Koha] Koha slowness and server hardware

2014-07-16 Thread Robin Sheat
Steven Nickerson schreef op wo 16-07-2014 om 13:32 [-0400]: > - Could it be the 32-bit OS? The version of VMware I installed > wouldn't allow me to create a 64-bit Debian VM. It could be, but it's probably not with that number of items. 64-bit is recommended however, and can be done wi

Re: [Koha] Koha slowness and server hardware

2014-07-16 Thread glaws
We're seeing a similar problem with our Koha install; we're blaming the 32-bit OS. I'd recommend upgrading VMWare and (re)installing Deb 64bit on your system, and also possibly moving up to Koha 3.16, if you have to option to do those things. Would the vSphere Hypervisor work for you? We've been p

Re: [Koha] Koha slowness and server hardware

2014-07-16 Thread Daniel Sanford
That number does seem usual. We've got a Koha instance that's larger in terms of items (small in terms of patrons) which gets a much lower usage. It's possible that a lot of searches or use could drive it up but that tends to be spikes rather than a long flat usage. VMware is a possible cause. The