slow page loads

Hi,

We have over the last couple of years built what is essentially a web based database application for our business that is accessed by our customers.. Launched in Sept 2011 and actively developed with new functionality being added since then.. We now have just under 16,000 "nodes" in the database..

The server is a Linode 1.5GB VM and runs nginx, php-fpm with APC and mysql..

We are working on a site whose pages are taking 17 seconds to load when it is not cached. What you see here is CCK content types like Book, Video, etc. in Block Views, which are then used in Mini Panels. These Mini Panels are joined together to create widgets. We are showing three nodes at a time for each content type - Still loading 12 different content types requires a large number of SQL queries.

Hi Highperformance Group!

Our organisation started using Drupal about a year ago. We are experiencing very slow page loads on our website - often up to 1 min or more. The server load average correspondingly high - mostly around 4-5, some times up to 30-40 and even more.