.. _performance:

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Optimizing RhodeCode Performance

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Follow these few steps to improve performance of RhodeCode system.

    beaker.cache.sql_cache_long.expire=3600 <-- set this to higher number

    This option affects the cache expiration time for main page. Having

    few hundreds of repositories on main page can sometimes make the system

    to behave slow when cache expires for all of them. Increasing `expire`

    option to day (86400) or a week (604800) will improve general response

    times for the main page

2. Switch from sqlite to postgres or mysql

    sqlite is a good option when having small load on the system. But due to

    locking issues with sqlite, it's not recommended to use it for larger