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Wednesday Jun 04, 2003

Competition is always a good thing.

Comments[0] by Dave in Java
Anthony Eden: JBoss Group is causing a lot of problems with the whole Sun vs. JBoss stink and I think a lot of it is due to "management" decisions within the JBoss Group. Having another company offering support for open source development will hopefully bring the JBoss Group to terms with their corporate mortality and will cause them to rethink their attitude. Competition is always a good thing.

Switcher!

Comments[2] by Dave in Roller
Lance Lavandowska: I believe Patrick is our first Switcher from another blog tool. I've seen a few people appear on FreeRoller, stating they came there from elsewhere, but this is the first instance of someone switching their own installation that I'm aware of.

Roller 0.9.7 performance tweak.

Comments[1] by Dave in Roller

When FreeRoller was attacked the other day, the system slowed to a crawl. I assumed that the problems were my fault and I started to look for performance problems. I noticed that we are running the RequestFilter, which is responsible for parsing the URL and handling request parameters, for every incoming request. The RequestFilter also hits the database to determine if the requested page and user are valid. Since many requests are for simple files, such as GIFs, JPGs, and CSS, this is not wise. So, I changed the Roller web.xml. I replaced this, which causes every request to go through the RequestFilter:

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>RequestFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

With this, which only puts page, rss, comments, *.do, and *.jsp through the ringer:

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>RequestFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/page/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>RequestFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/rss/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>RequestFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/comments/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>RequestFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>RequestFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

This seemed to have a significant effect on FreeRoller performance and on the MySQL load. I'm still looking at some Java code changes to optimize RequestFilter and RollerRequest, but the above change is easy to apply, so if you are running Roller 0.9.7 (or later), give it a try.

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