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wierd use of drupal...

Posted by Shiny on September 26, 2008 at 3:09am

What's the wierdest things you've used drupal for?
Something other than a website serving up nodes of content to the masses... Funky creative uses..

Optimizing for many nodes and comments - database view

Posted by meba on September 26, 2008 at 2:45pm

Hello, i am currently trying to optimize a website with 82000 nodes and 749414 comments. Unfortunately, it's badly developed, many modules, etc. but I can't do anything with it right now.

As far as I've been searching, frontpage took 800 (!) SQL queries to display. I used:

Block cache
Drupal lookup path optimization http://drupal.org/node/106559
Removed database locking http://drupal.org/node/55516
Index for pager query on frontpage http://drupal.org/node/295283
Advcache with taxonomy/node/comment cache
using eaccelerator

Performance-related core patches

Posted by webchick on September 27, 2008 at 12:37am
Last updated by webchick on Sat, 2009-01-31 18:35

(Note: I have moved the contents of this node to a sub-page of the http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core section: http://drupal.org/node/367257 - webchick)

Drupal Camp Chicago Invite

Posted by toursheet on October 4, 2008 at 11:33pm

You are invited to attend Drupal Camp Chicago on October Friday 24 & Saturday 25 2008.

http://drupalcampchicago.org

Who/Why:

For over 2 years Chicago Drupal has truly highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have built resourceful bridges between many local Chicago establishments including non-profits, entrepreneurs, Drupal development companies, independent consultants, hobbyist, and others in the mid-west. Our goal for this Drupal Camp is to bring everyone together for open communication, education, fun, and industry networking.

What:

High volume Drupal sites - what do we need to know?

Posted by mombee on October 7, 2008 at 1:19pm

I've been pointed in the direction of the High Performance group to discuss my requirements (http://drupal.org/node/317535). I’m looking at building a gallery site that runs the following predicted metrics each month:

• 320k visits
• 200k unique visits
• 5m page views

• 14k uploads
• 16Gb total uploads

Anecdotally I'm being told that running this on Drupal is a risk, but all the documentation suggests that as long as we have good (dedicated) hardware, good 'normal' website tuning practices and a caching facility, then we should be OK.

CSS Agregation bug

Posted by crosenblum on October 13, 2008 at 9:09am

I have been testing turning css aggregation on/off, i am using drupal 6.5 with a modified version of aboutpeople theme.

In either case, it looks fine in firefox.

But in ie, with css caching enabled, can not find the aggregated css file.

I think it would be nice to know exactly how css aggregation works, and maybe instead of a different file name each time, it creates one file that it updates, or deletes depending on css aggregation being on.

Using Views for high traffic web sites

Posted by gansbrest-gdo on October 22, 2008 at 6:02pm

I would like to know if you guys using Views for high traffic web sites or not?

There are a lot of mess in our current websites.. Some of the pages and blocks were built using views and some of them using about 6000 queries to display nodes listing on the page! And some using custom modules and custom queries. I personally prefer to write custom code because it easier to maintain and it's easier to find where is that query if u need to modify it.

How can I get a better Free Tagging Performance?

Posted by bennos on October 24, 2008 at 11:39am

I am developing a bigger site (D5) with a free tagging vocabulary. Currently the vocabulary has 16.000 entrys. i have searched with google and on drupal.org, but I have not found some performance improvement like cache or pacthes.

What are you doing?

I think I am not the first one with bigger vocabulary. Some links or code snippets would be great.

thx
bennos

Staying online during a perfect storm of traffic

Posted by juan_g on October 25, 2008 at 8:28am

As seen on Planet Drupal, the recent article Improving Drupal's Performance with the Boost Module for the UN's Millennium Campaign (October 23rd, 2008) describes how a Drupal site successfully managed a very high traffic situation. They achieved this with "one enormously helpful Drupal module, called Boost", and "some fine tuning".

Benchmarking Drupal core for 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x: We are getting slower

Posted by kbahey on October 27, 2008 at 12:45am

We conducted some benchmarks for Drupal 5.12, Drupal 6.6 and Drupal 7.x (Oct 24 checkout).

We used the same data set for all 3 instances:

Users 4,950
Nodes 5,000
Comments 20,000
Vocabularies 10
Terms 1,000

And same test parameters: 10 concurrent users, 2 minutes stress test on 30 individual nodes, and the home page.

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