Why is drupal looking for these files, why does drupal think they should even exist.

Posted by cfaust on November 3, 2012 at 8:30pm

Hi All,

We are having a performance problems and are trying to get to the bottom of it. One strange thing I see when doing a strace is there are all kinds of requests for drupal files that don't exist, sometimes its just some file and other times it might be a view or something (but nothing we created a file for). Some examples:

/modules/system/page-node.tpl.php
/profiles/default/sites/all/modules/schema/engines
/modules/system/block-block-8.tpl.php
modules/system/block-google_admanager-xxxx.tpl.php

It goes on and on like that, 100s of different files.

I don't understand why drupal thinks these files exist

I'm current running pressflow 6.22. I'm using litespeed right now but I got the same thing under apache

TIA

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Posted by derek smalls on November 3, 2012 at 9:39pm

can you find these referenced in the database somewhere?

the only thing i can think is that these may be references of files created in system that you could then create in your theme to be customized. I could be well off mark though. I assume that you have created a block 8 and at some point have had a block containing google ad manager?

I dumped the whole db and did

Posted by cfaust on November 3, 2012 at 10:05pm

I dumped the whole db and did a grep through for a bunch of the files and I found nothing. Some of the stuff is coming from core like

modules/system/block-user.tpl.php

What could I have done for it to be looking at that?

Your right though, a lot are things we created like we have a block for google admanager but we never created a theme/override file for it so why is it looking for one. We have another block that simply displays a view. Again no override for it, no file at all but something is looking for it on the file system. I just can't figure out what.