#Performance

A way to skip the render process of all displayed entities.

For a project, we needed a caching solution which is not time-based and deals with logged in users. So we can't use Varnish and the caching methods of Views and Panels.
During the developement we built a module called Display Cache.

The idea

An entity, which does not change, does not need to render again and again.

So we provide a wrapper function, which calls entity_view() and drupal_render() and caches the result.

First off, thanks in advance for any comments/recommendations.

Over the past few months I have been working on performance tuning a D7 site that includes Drupal commerce. Using NewRelic, I was able to determine that menu_tree_check_access() was being called on every menu item with the Taxonomy Menu Block. I quickly replaced the menu block with Views that does the same thing as the menu block did, except much faster...

UPDATE: Make sure that your Drupal settings.php connection string uses the IP address of your MySQL server (e.g. 127.0.0.1 for your local Windows machine), not 'localhost'. This change brought the execution time of a barebones Drupal install down from ~800-900ms to ~60-90ms.

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Fairly new to Drupal, trying to determine what kind of performance we should expect from a stock Drupal install, with the optional modules (not the barebones option).

Olá a todos.
Tenho estado um pouco afastado do drupal, de certa forma também devidoa frustração da demasiada fraca performance em servidores partilhados.

É óbvio que não posso esperar ir dos 0 aos 100 em 5 segundos com uma lata velha, mas custa-me não poder usar o drupal para os meus pequenos projectos.

Já usei vários métodos de cache (so não usei o varnish, não tenho direitos para tal) e nunca fiquei satisfeito com os resultados.

I've been working on the content/slides for my presentation (Front End Performance) in a week and I've been thinking about various trade offs for various situations. One of the more interesting ones has to do with a very popular page where 99% of visitors bounce off; aka the Slashdot effect. When something like this happens, the less open connections to your server the better.