[Seaside] Preparing a Seaside Squeak application for Production

[Philippe Marschall]

2006/11/16, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
> 2006/11/16, Sébastien Rocca-Serra <sra at e8dev.com>:
> > Hi, We develop a Seaside Web application that will soon go in production.
> >
> > It's our first experience with Seaside & Squeak, so we need advice
> > before installing the image on the production server.
> >
> > Context
> > -------
> > We plan to use a headless 3.8 image with Seaside 2.6 on a Debian Sarge
> > with a 3.9.7 VM, and we use MySQL 5.0 for persistence.
>
> Is there a special reason why you don't use the latest (3.9.8) vm?
>
> > We need to address high traffic.
> >
> > Questions
> > ---------
> > - Is it safer to use a latest version of Seaside 2.6 for bug fixes (like
> > 118+), or use an older one (under 100 or so)?,
>
> Latest. Especially since old doesn't mean stable, just old.
>
> > - Is Squeak 3.8 better suited to Seaside 2.6?
> > - Is Squeak 3.9 better suited to Seaside 2.6?
>
> Make sure you have FastSocketStream. It's in 3.8.1 or 3.9.
>
> > - Are there subtle performance tweaks, (silly example: closing all
> > windows in the image)?
>
> - Yeah, close those Morphs. Weird things can happen if you leave them
> up open too long.
> - Especially close the Transcript.
> - Flush the Monticello Cache
> - Build a special image for deployment without, RB, Shout, eCompletion, ...

The patches we apply against 3.8, they are all in 3.7. I don't know
what of this is in 3.8.1.

Characters are improperly stored: http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=2254
Integer>>printOn:base:showRadix: http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=2229
printShowingDecimalPlaces: http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=1837 (Avi)
Utilites class >> #floatPrecisionForDecimalPlaces:
http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=2187
categoryspeedup-al.1.cs.gz

Patches to consider:
TimeForSpeed: http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=4669
accurateDateAndTimeNow-brp: http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=0000474
Dictionary fix (again in 3.9)

You might also want to experiment with a Kernel/Minimal/* Image.

And a Monticello version from Impara or a backport.

Philippe