Extension for Magento Enterprise 1.13 to plug into the default Indexing functionality.
This module is aimed at Enterprise users who are looking for a quick way to attempt to increase the performance of their backend interface. It achieves this by forking the processing of the update on save events off to an external worker running on beanstalkd (or a similar queueing system supported by [Lilmuckers_Queue] (https://github.com/lilmuckers/magento-lilmuckers_queue)).
This is no-where near a magic bullet solution, and should be used in conjunction with other optimisations to achieve the desired level of performance, it's merely a single bullet in the bandolier.
In testing I ran it against a database of 17000 products and 225 store views, and product and category save time decreased from an average of 93 seconds to 8 seconds. Which is a fair boost to the performance of the system.
If your site is a lot simpler (only contained a few store views and/or products) then the chances are you will not experience such a marked increase in performance.
- Magento Enterprise 1.13 or higher
- [Lilmuckers_Queue] (https://github.com/lilmuckers/magento-lilmuckers_queue) v0.2.2 or better
- Enable the module under System > Configuration > Index Management > Index Options
This module works by overwriting the event handlers within Enterprise_Catalog, such that the event observer data is fed into the queue system, which then will directly run the index refresh in a seperate process.
This is BETA software, and not tested on any kind of production environment. Infact I built it in 4 hours or so as a proof-of-concept, and that concept appears to have been proven. It has not been exhaustively tested, however it should theoretically be fine, but test it hugely before deploying.