hummingbird Presta 9.0.0 switch to Hummingbird kills server

[BeeJayF]

Hello all,

I tried to switch from classic to hummingbird in a shop that is already populated with around 5000 products - as expected this created a server load of 10 and more - but as the server came down to below 1 maybe 20 minutes later I get an error 500 on front and backend.

I'm just glad I had a complete server backup.

Any ideas how the switch to hummingbird can be done "softly" - incrementally prepared to the heavy load won't kill the switch-process?

 

Cheers,

 

BJF

[Prestashop Addict]

Did you clear the cache after switching the theme?

[BeeJayF]

I was not able to do that because right after the switch the server was so committed to carry out the changes - operating the back office was too slow.

Deleting it manually by removing the cache with the CLI - no I did not think of that. Would that be worth a try?

Cheers,

 

BJF

[BeeJayF]

So now I tried to clear the cache - switch and clear it right away - the server came up to a load of about 5 and after a while it came back down to below 1.

I then tried to open a product page and the load kicked back to 2+ for a minute - opening the pace took very long. So I wrote a script the waits until the load is below 1 and then starts calling pages from the sitemap - I left it running all night.

In the morning the whole sitemap was completely processed - but - opening each page still takes somewhat around 20 seconds - really no idea why but maybe it has something to do with the header I did with Creative Elements?

I switched back to classic theme (123... done) and the server is back to very good performance!

Guess I'll wait until hummingbird 1.0 or so...

 

Cheers,

 

BJF

Edited August 9 by BeeJayF (see edit history)