performance

Tutorials: Drupal caching, speed and performance

Posted by juan_g on October 27, 2008 at 4:35pm

To make it easier to find information on these matters, I've started the new handbook page Drupal caching, speed and performance in the Tutorials section of drupal.org. It's just a guide to information and tutorials on optimizing Drupal's performance, speed, and scalability, with an initial listing of fourteen resources. If anything is missing, you may edit it to add other useful Drupal performance resources.

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.

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".

How can I get a better Free Tagging Performance?

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

Hi

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

Highest number of nodes in a Drupal site you've worked on?

Posted by ryan_courtnage on September 15, 2008 at 9:39pm

less than 100

5% (3 votes)

100 to 1,000

11% (6 votes)

1,001 to 10,000

20% (11 votes)

10,001 to 100,000

23% (13 votes)

100,001 to 500,000

4% (2 votes)

500,001 to 1,000,000

13% (7 votes)

more than 1,000,000

25% (14 votes)

Total votes: 56

Memcache API or Cache Router?

Posted by mikey_p on September 10, 2008 at 8:44pm

Memcache API

49% (26 votes)

Cache Router

51% (27 votes)

Total votes: 53

Drupal and connection pooling

Posted by shyamala on August 26, 2008 at 4:24pm

Does Drupal support connection pooling,
transaction control,
connect and disconnect connections??

Any thoughts on:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/11/12/are-php-persistent-connec...

Tracking Performance/Page Execution Times

Posted by bbenone on August 21, 2008 at 5:29pm

I'm looking for some tools to analyze page performance times. I'm betting some Drupal tools/modules already exist, but my searches are turning up empty. Anyway, I figured I'd post here before reinventing the wheel.

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.

Surviving social-media traffic spikes: 5 simple performance tips

Posted by JohnForsythe on July 7, 2008 at 8:23pm

I just wrote a new article called How I Survived a 2300% Traffic Increase With Drupal. It documents my experience with hitting the front page of Reddit, and some of the steps I took to make sure my site stayed online.

I also included some nice traffic graphs and statistics. If you ever wondered what kind of numbers to expect from a front-page link on a big social news site, be sure to check it out.

--
John Forsythe

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