Talk about caching and performance in Szeged

Posted by Gerhard Killesreiter on August 20, 2008 at 7:36am

Hi there,

I'll give a talk on caching and performance at Szeged:

http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/caching-and-performance...

If there is any topic you are especially interested in and think I should cover it during the session, please leave a comment below.

Comments

Performance benefits from 3rd party Search backends

Posted by markus_petrux on August 20, 2008 at 10:52am

There's another session about Drupal search, however perhaps you could mention something about performance benefits from 3rd party Search backends such as Solr, Xapian or Sphinx. Maybe something about experience on using alternate search solutions at d.o from a performance/scalability point of view.

I think Robert will cover

Posted by Gerhard Killesreiter on August 20, 2008 at 10:52pm

I think Robert will cover this topic, he has had access to data from drupal.org. I don't actually have mich experience with the various backends. All I know e.g. about Xapian is that it works great. :p

Drupal core search, Solr,

Posted by robertDouglass on August 21, 2008 at 6:56am

Drupal core search, Solr, Xapian and Sphinx are all going to be covered in the search presentation.

Big Sigh

Posted by Zarevac on August 21, 2008 at 3:49pm

O how I recognize this. Just moved to Drupal and I get caching issues. Wonder sometimes why I moved to Drupal.

Please take a look at the boys from Phorum at www.phorum.org , their caching system works wonderful. I run some high traffic forums and never have issues with it. I do highly recommend it and if I compare Phorum's system with that of Drupal I must say Phorum is superior.

Can you explain the

Posted by Gerhard Killesreiter on August 21, 2008 at 3:53pm

Can you explain the architectural differences between the cache implementations?

There are big differences, I

Posted by Zarevac on August 28, 2008 at 8:21pm

There are big differences, I know the Phorum guys are working on embedding Phorum into Drupal. The best thing you can do is just talk to the lead programmers, go to their site www.phorum.org and go into the chat section at http://www.phorum.org/chat/
Just talk to Brian, Thomas or Maurice, they are the Phorum wizards and can give you good tips as they know Phorums structure the best.

Would be good to mention js

Posted by catch on August 21, 2008 at 4:54pm

Would be good to mention js aggregation and block cache as new in D6. Maybe some discussion of things we could cache but don't (yet) - node_load, paths etc.

I'd personally like to see some drupal-specific discussion of squid, mod_proxy etc. and memcache too.

We Need To Watch Some Caching

Posted by Jamie Holly on August 21, 2008 at 5:38pm

I agree Drupal can use more caching, but it has to be done in such a way that it is only beneficial depending upon caching mechanisms. An example would be on paths. Using a DB cache for paths really wouldn't be beneficial (cached and uncached is a simple key/value lookup on the database), but if someone is using a different caching mechanism then it is very beneficial, sometime removing dozens of queries on a page view.

Caching nodes (as well as users) would be a good benefit though, with a well thought out mechanism to force a refresh of the cache. I would say cache the node after all other modules have altered it, then each module that might change a node has access to the mechanism to flush it.

HollyIT - Grab the Netbeans Drupal Development Tool at GitHub.

Could anybody provide some

Posted by Gerhard Killesreiter on August 21, 2008 at 11:07pm

Could anybody provide some data on the D6 block cache from a live site?

Tried All Alternatives ?

Posted by drupdrips on October 15, 2008 at 4:10am

Trying to delete this post as it was misspoken I believe in the light of Drupal Forums comaprison to Phorums. In this post I just deleted I was talking about performance improvements in general.