When I have around 10 config products in my cart and then want to open the cart, magento is so very slow. When I run the profiler this is the bottleneck
EAV: Mage_Eav_Model_Config::getAttribute 23.4532 429804 455,861,784 18,087,936
Can this somehow be improved? I am on a shared hosting server optimized for magento with memcache.
Yes you can use flat tables for your product data (this increases the time it takes to get some of the product data).
To do that go to the backend system->configuration->catalog And in the 'frontend' section set the 'Use Flat Catalog Product' to YES.
Hope this was helpful.
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