Hi,

I have a Web interface (cgi-bin) that allows users to search a collection and store specific results. Although each user has to log in with a personal account, they all use the same interface and thus create a session with:

my $session = Session->new("localhost", 1984, "admin", "admin");

It is possible that several users access the collection at the same time and run different queries.

From time to time (I cannot see a specific pattern), they report a time-out. It is not because they try to cancel a query by clicking the back-button. If they try the same query a few minutes later, it runs without a time-out.

These queries need between 200 and 14000 ms in the GUI and have around 2000 to 4000 results.

I wonder whether this time-out is due to overload of the server as such (I have a virtual server only with 2GB RAM and don't know who else is using it for what) because it needs so much time to compute the results, or due to concurrent access to the collection all run with the "admin" user?

The result for a query is a HTML code with checkboxes, the rendering of each element is done within XQuery. Perhaps this makes the whole process too slow and the browser times out waiting for the results?

Best regards

Cerstin