Cheshire Cat Computing

Yes, I'm running my MRTG, RRDTool and Routers2 on Windows XP and IIS.

It all works really well, except for the web performance. It just takes forever to build the web page, especially if I have a target with lots of interfaces (i.e. our fully loaded Cisco Cat 4006s).

Might anyone be able to suggest how I may increase the build speed (decrease the build time) of the generated web pages and graphs?

I'm already running a 3.2 GHz Hyperthreading Intel. I've only 512 MB of ram but that doesn't seem to be the bottleneck.

aTdHvAaNnKcSe!

Eric

Under Windows, its a bit more difficult, and also under IIS.

Part of the performance problem, once you've ensured enough memory is on your system for everything to run without swapping, is the time taken to load the .cfg files. You may have a lot of them...

routers.cgi has a caching mode that it can use if you have a persistent web server. IIS can't do this though... Apache can use mod_perl, or speedyCGI under UNIX. So, you may want to consider installing Apache with mod_perl (under windows) and then enable the caching mode (in the routers.conf file).

Anyone have any ideas on improving CGI performance in general under IIS/Windows?

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
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