Wiki performance

[Jamon Camisso]

Hi All,

I hope that the holidays have been restful, certainly well deserved 
after the 1.3 release.

Before the release, many people commented about the relatively poor 
performance of the wiki. In fact, the Wiki ended up performing worse 
after adding more memory.

To remedy the situation, a number of changes have been made to optimize 
the memory usage of Confluence. Page load times are considerably faster now.

Unfortunately, this speed up is not realized for the initial connection 
to the wiki. There is a support ticket created with Atlassian regarding 
the slow initial page load times, with an expected 24 hour turnaround time.

Additionally, the wiki's backend has been successfully migrated from 
MySQL to PostgreSQL. With the help of Anastasia and James, pages and 
templates that were not rendering properly have been identified and 
corrected.

Once Atlassian respond with suggestions to speed up the initial page 
load times, the last thing to do is upgrade from 3.3.3 to a current 
3.4.6 release. That will be a scheduled outage with plenty of lead time 
notifying everyone.

Just a quick update, feel free to send any feedback my way.

Cheers, Jamon