In this case portable means installed on USB 3 flash drives formatted for NTFS, which I expected to be faster than past experience with conventional hard drive on what would now be considered pretty slow WinXP based computer. The primary computer used for this experiment is an 8GB Intel i5 with 3Ghz max processor speed running Windows 10. It seems to work but is so painfully slow that it could NOT be considered useful.
Examples of how slow involve trying to setup a new instance of Wordpress which resulted in such things as follows:
- Unable to access from another computer on the same local network using browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, IE. They all usually timeout indicating that the host server is unresponsive. Usually is meant to say that occasional responses suggest the problem is not related to the network.
Access from same/local host computer using IP 127.0.0.1 obtained the same result until the PHP timeout was increased from 30 to 60. At 60 wp-login.php would return the sign on page. However, after entering userid/pw the sign-on would still fail with a php error indicating a line number within a php file where it looks like the time limit was exceeded.
Never had this experience in the past. Initial setup of Wordpress always worked quite well. Also it seems like this is a very basic and I presume common undertaking for XAMPP users. Observing activity in the Windows Task Manager while trying to perform these operations reveals relatively little usage of both CPU and memory. It really does NOT appear to be a problem related to the processing power of the computer.
Any suggestions?