X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/51d401adc51074e9bfce0269d0be46bc4e295b59..e6fcd802e531493665d83850f19aa0267728b4ce:/doc/tips/optimising_ikiwiki.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/optimising_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/optimising_ikiwiki.mdwn index 5840f2eba..d66ee9343 100644 --- a/doc/tips/optimising_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/optimising_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ If your version of ikiwiki is not [[!version]], try upgrading. New optimisations are frequently added to ikiwiki, some of them yielding *enormous* speed increases. +## run ikiwiki in verbose mode + +Try changing a page, and run ikiwiki with `-v` so it will tell you +everything it does to deal with that changed page. Take note of +which other pages are rebuilt, and which parts of the build take a long +time. This can help you zero in on individual pages that contain some of +the expensive things listed below. + ## expensive inlines Do you have an archive page for your blog that shows all posts, @@ -64,7 +72,7 @@ smaller. \[[!inline pages="blog/* and link(tag)" show=0 archive=yes quick=yes]] -Only downsides: This won't show titles set by the [[!ikiwiki/directive/meta]] +Only downsides: This won't show titles set by the [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive. And there's no RSS feed for users to use -- but if this page is only for the archives or tag for your blog, users should be subscribing to the blog's main page's RSS feed instead. @@ -85,7 +93,7 @@ The resulting html file might get big and expensive to generate as you keep adding pages. First, consider removing the "show=title". Then the map will not show page -titles set by the [[!ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive -- but will also +titles set by the [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive -- but will also only need to be generated when pages are added or removed, not for every page change. @@ -130,7 +138,7 @@ all the pages on a traditional, highly WikiLinked wiki, is asking for things to be slow. But using it to map a few related pages is probably fine. This site's own [[plugins/linkmap]] rarely slows it down, because it -only shows the [[index]] page, and the small set of pages that link to it. +only shows the index page, and the small set of pages that link to it. That is accomplished as follows: \[[!linkmap pages="index or (backlink(index)"]]