Goals

• Figure out why ikiwiki is taking a long time to open the edit form or to save a page.

How it works

Copied from https://ikiwiki.info/tips/optimising_ikiwiki/:

If you have a repeatable change that ikiwiki takes a long time to build, and none of the above help, the next thing to consider is profiling ikiwiki.

The best way to do it is:

• Install Devel::NYTProf
• PERL5OPT=-d:NYTProf
• export PER5OPT
• Now run ikiwiki as usual, and it will generate a nytprof.out file.
• Run nytprofhtml to generate html files.
• Those can be examined to see what parts of ikiwiki are being slow.

To-do

[svetlana /home/private/wiki]$ PERL5OPT=-d:NYTProf
[svetlana /home/private/wiki]$ export PER5OPT
[svetlana /home/private/wiki]$ ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup 
skipping bad filename free/To-dos.mdwn~
[svetlana /home/private/wiki]$ nytprofhtml
Reading nytprof.out
Profile data incomplete, inflate error -5 ((null)) at end of input file, perhaps the process didn't exit cleanly or the file has been truncated  (refer to TROUBLESHOOTING in the documentation)
[svetlana /home/private/wiki]$ 

• Where is the TROUBLESHOOTING file located?

Solution

• fix the typo: PERL5OPT not PER5OPT
• the original page updated (2018-02-03)