From d6407004b410d4b59290c37349a881a8fd5e31c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Emmott Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 13:03:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] explain wordpress configuration change --- README.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6b10acb..c34fc24 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -73,6 +73,16 @@ Wordpress fresh install of Wordpress, and clicking 'generate data' in the admin panel a bunch of times. - URLs file is based on traffic to hhvm.com - request ratios are: +- `DISABLE_WP_CRON` is set to true to disable the auto-update and other requests + to `rpc.pingomatic.com` and `wordpress.org`. + - auto-updating is not suitable for a like-to-like benchmark system like this + - `WP_CRON` increases noise, as it makes the benchmark results include the time + taken by external sites + - serious deployments should trigger the `WP_CRON` jobs via cron or similar: + - an administrator should be aware of all production changes, especially + code version changes + - scheduled maintainance should not make an unfortunate end-user request take + significantly more time 100: even spread over long tail of posts 50: WP front page. This number is an estimate - we get ~ 90 to /, ~ 1 to @@ -91,7 +101,7 @@ The long tail was generated with: printf("http://localhost:__HTTP_PORT__/?p=%d\n", mt_rand(1,52)); } - Ordering of the URLs file is courtesy of the unix 'shuf' command. +Ordering of the URLs file is courtesy of the unix 'shuf' command. Drupal 7 --------