Benchmarking Drupal

Hi High-Performance and Benchmarking-Drupal,

I thought it would be great to have a dedicated channel for high-performance discussions.

If there is already another channel, please point me to it, but if not lets all join #drupal-performance on FreeNode to discuss all performance related matters and especially also D8 performance.

Once we have enough people there we can even request a bot :).

Thanks,

Fabian

I'm trying to benchmark a View on a MySQL server shared by a number of other developers, so I don't have the luxury of turning off query_cache_type since as far as I can tell, it's server wide and not restricted to per database.

I believe there's a way to turn it off per session, is there either a good way or otherwise, that I can set my particular development branch to operate with query_cache_type off.

Alternatively, a way to push SQL_NO_CACHE into Views either globally or per View would be fine.

Thanks for any advice :)

I am in the market for a VPS in the $15-$30/mth range, and I've been shopping it around with the help of some feedback I've received from the WebHostingTalk forums. So I came up with a few new benchmarking tests that I haven't seen mentioned before. The results of my benchmarks can be found here: HTML format and Spreadsheet format

The new tests using time+drush+devel I came up with are:

1. time drush generate users 2000 - This test will give you the amount of time it took to create 2000 users on your drupal site
2. time drush generate content 5000 2 - This test will give you the amount of time it took to create 5000 nodes (page,story,book,blog,forum) with 7500 comments
3. time drush generate taxonomy 15 250 - This test will give you the amount of time it took to create 15 vocabulary with 250 terms

This is easy and quick, nothing fancy, no voting - just post your session idea (title) and your name/contact info and show up to present that day! We have sessions open from 10am-2pm each day (Saturday and Sunday) and each session should plan for 45 minutes each.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (edit wiki page)

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I create a 5.2 and 6.x patch for measuring how much memory a module takes, and also how much the whole Drupal page load takes.

The results are published here: Measuring memory consumption by Drupal bootstrap and modules.

Short version: in Drupal 6, modules are better off than in 5.2, but the bootstrap is a tad larger.

If anyone is interested in replicating the results with more realistic install profiles, please do so and publish your results/findings/recommendations.

Hello all,
Sorry for cross-posting; but I think people working on different aspects of Drupal may have interest in this idea.

I've submitted a SoC 2007 Drupal proposal on automating the whole process of creating a complete Drupal site with a LAMP stack in a self-contained virtual machine image. A formatted PDF version is here:
http://www.abeharry.info/SoC2007_DrupalAST_FullProposal.pdf
Here is the abstract:

The Drupal automated staging toolkit is a proposed set of code libraries, file schemas and parsers, and code generators, for

Hi there, I have some interest in building a Drupal becnhmarking suite that can be used for testing the impact of newly proposed patches on our beloved content managemanet framework.

Inspired by Dries posting on the powersavings one can get by having a system run on low CPU usage:

Say we would make a test with 1k nodes in Drupal and Joomla? and run JMeter with the same parameters on it against both. Both would be optimzed for caching.

It would be nice to make some MRTG/RRD stats on it with using the MIBS of Watts used and CPU's cycles burned. Then we can show that Drupal will burn less cycles and is in fact environmental friendlier then Joomla?.