performance

I have Boost installed on a few sites, and am really pleased with the huge difference it makes. But I cannot for the life of me get any version of IE to serve the cached pages.
I found in the issue queue a notice to disable RFC2616 compliance, which I have done to no effect (yes I generated new rules and changed the .htaccess).
Is there another setting to enable/disable? What else can I do? I have seen boost tags on ie before (just not my sites) so I know it is possible...
Any help is appreciated!

The sites in question are:
http://www.tourofcalifornia-santacruz.com

I'm in the process of setting up Drupal as the CMS for a large community site. This is is going to get a fair amount of image/video uploads which are put into /sites/default/files/ This works well for a few hundred to a few thousand files but after that performance and maintainability starts to degrade.

Can someone shed some light on the performance of CCK when lots of fields are created? An example would be The New York Observer, with 110 fields.

However, is there any specific data out there on how good its performance is in the case of +100 (or more) fields?

Drupal 6 Performance Tips, by Trevor James and TJ Holowaychuk, is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing aimed at Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites.

At Do It With Drupal last December in New Orleans, I was very rude to the inestimable Matt Westgate by making a contradictory comment in his "Drupal under Pressure" high-performance session about how APC decreases rather than increases total memory utilization in Apache with mod_php and then having my phone ring with an emergency client call and having to walk out of the room without explaining what I meant. Poor form to say the least.

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to build galleries with the image-as-node approach, but I'm worried about the performance since I do have around 600,000 images and the number is increasing everyday. Here it says:

"It is theoretically possible that, for sites with lots (say hundreds of thousands) of images, storing them all as individual nodes could result in a performance hit from the extra database overhead." (from http://drupal.org/node/325688).

Hi all,

I want to build a book review site that will start with millions of nodes -- every book is a node. Meanwhile, logged in users can create nodes as they like, for example, to add new books. I also need to use organic groups, and group members will be free to post contents (which are also nodes) in the group.

Hi. I'm trying to understand a fairly fundamental Drupal architecture aspect. The oversimplified question is: When does a views query run? But the real scenario is this:

1. I create a view with a block display type -- doesn't matter what it is.
2. In Admin/Blocks, I enable that view to appear in my left sidebar.

So now the view will be active in some way for any node on my site, as long as that node can display a left sidebar.

3.. In Admin/Blocks, I configure that view to only appear on pages entitled 'whatever'

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.

Hey, I'm new to this group and I'm very happy of joining you.
In my company, we're migrating our news sites based on an old Java CMS that we've built some years ago to Drupal.
Our major concern is Drupal's performance, so we're starting to work on an architecture for it. For our old cms we used to generate static pages so the only job for apache was to serve those htmls. I don't know if there a way for Drupal to do this and at the same time have people logged in in the back-end creating nodes. What would be a good architecture for this? We have about 50k unique users a day and growing.