-A little guide to increase the performance of a Friendica site
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-**At first**
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-Feel free to ask at Friendica support at https://helpers.pyxis.uberspace.de/profile/helpers if you need some clarification about the following instructions or if you need help in any other way.
+Feel free to ask in the [Friendica support forum](https://helpers.pyxis.uberspace.de/profile/helpers) if you need some clarification about the following instructions or if you need help in any other way.
-For example: It can happen that the poller.php takes longer than expected. When there is no lock file, it is possible for several instances of poller.php to run at the same time - which would slow down the system and affect the maximum numbers of processes and database connections.
+For example: It can happen that the poller.php takes longer than expected.
+When there is no lock file, it is possible for several instances of poller.php to run at the same time - which would slow down the system and affect the maximum numbers of processes and database connections.
-The folder for item cache is cleaned up regularly. Every file that exceeds the cache duration is deleted. **If you accidentally point the cache path to your web root then you will delete your web root!**
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+The folder for item cache is cleaned up regularly.
+Every file that exceeds the cache duration is deleted. **If you accidentally point the cache path to your web root then you will delete your web root!**
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-**Description**
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-This plugin reduces the database load massively. Downside: You can't see the total number of pages available at each module, and have this replaced with "older" and "newer" links.
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-**Administration**
+This plugin reduces the database load massively.
+Downside: You can't see the total number of pages available at each module, and have this replaced with "older" and "newer" links.
Performance: Database: 0.244, Network: 0.002, Rendering: 0.044, Parser: 0.001, I/O: 0.021, Other: 0.237, Total: 0.548
Performance: Database: 0.244, Network: 0.002, Rendering: 0.044, Parser: 0.001, I/O: 0.021, Other: 0.237, Total: 0.548
-When APC is enabled, Friendica uses it to store configuration data between different requests. This helps speeding up the page creation time.
+APC is an opcode cache.
+It speeds up the processing of PHP code.
+When APC is enabled, Friendica uses it to store configuration data between different requests.
+This helps speeding up the page creation time.