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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Tackling a delayed response from the server


As time goes by your user base growing or simply daily usage can produce lots of issues and content inside Redmine. Depending upon your server choice and configuration, you might notice decreased performance. However, this does not necessarily need to be the cause of Redmine's slowdown. Generally, something else might be using your server, or causing the database, memory, or CPU to perform poorly.

How to do it…

The best way to monitor your server's capacity usage is to do it when it's maximally loaded. This is probably during work days. If you run webalizer statistics or something similar, you will get an hourly average usage log, like the following:

Obviously, the proper time to analyze CPU usage, database, and so on is between 2 and 9 hours.

Tip

Please keep in mind that your server may be in a different time zone and adjust the time difference between your time zone and the time zone displayed on the server's logs.

To actively monitor log (on Unix...