Page load time on my intranet TWiki (entry level dedicated hosted server with Linux, Celeron 2.0 MHz, 512 MB RAM) is around 1.5 sec. This is with plain cgi. Speed is doubled if you run TWiki under mod_perl or PersistentPerl.

Something must be odd with your setup. Please post a support question in the TWiki Support web.

-- Peter AT StructuredWikis DOT com - http://www.structuredwikis.com/ - http://twiki.org/

Peter,

Concerning Twiki.org, it might be a good idea to raise some money via donation. This is the standard way to keep great open/free source project up and running. I am afraid that the slowness of twiki.org will give a bad image of Twiki. You could add on the home page of Twiki.org a message explaining why it is so slow and inviting people to contribute financially to a more powerful hosting. Wikimedia raised almost 1.000.000$ in a few months. Why not Twiki!!!  In addition you should also invite all the happy customers to donate or to host Twiki.org: yahoo, WaltDsney, ...

Meanwhile, would it be feasible to cache some of the Twiki.org webs?

Anyway, great work altogether.

We recently deploy Twiki 4.2 on the T2000 box with 32 GB RAM (with coolstack installed and configured).
We also use mod_perl, but the page view especially using search results slower than the same page deployed in v240 with 8 GB RAM.

Any insight?  Below is an example the search page we used:

%TABLE{ tableborder="1" cellpadding="1" sort="on"  initsort="1"}%
| *Project ID* | *Status* |
%SEARCH{search="META:FORM{name=\".*IsveWWPCobraForm\";META:FIELD{.*?Stage.*?value=\"Execution.*\"}" regex="on" scope="text" nosearch="on"  order="modified" web="MDE"  format="| $formfield(Project ID) |$formfield(Status) | " }%


Thanks for your help!