I have a fresh installation of drupal 5.6.
It open fast.
Then I install invite module, and there is always a 3 second delay before content is transmitted.
Once I remove invite, the site is fast again.
Any idea what might cause this? There are no errors or warnings in the log.

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softtouch’s picture

softtouch commented
Title: Invote module slows down drupal? » Invite module slows down drupal?

Tried it again and again, every time invite is installed, I have a 3-5 second delay before any content is visible in the browser, for every single page.
And every time I uninstall it, the site loads fast again. Any idea?

softtouch’s picture

softtouch commented

Any comment on this issue?
I did yesterday again a fresh install for another domain, and again, after installing invite, the site crawls, giving me 3-5 seconds delay for every page load.
Removing invite and the site loads without any delay.
This module is needed by buddylist2, which I want to use on the new site.

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smk-ka commented

Sorry, I'm clueless as to what could be the cause for the slowdowns. Maybe devel's query log capability can help you identify the hot spot (considering it's db related anyhow). Oh, and please try the latest invite release (which is 1.13).

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jackspiv commented

FWIW

I have not used Invite yet (I've been hesitating because of the speed issue).
But my site has been slow and have been paying lots of attention to speed lately.

Have had great results using the Firebug plugin for Firefox and the yslow addon for firebug.
They track each http call that the site makes, time them to see what contribution they make to the slowness, and provide suggestions for improvement.

http://getfirebug.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

There were many suggestions. The things that have made the most difference on my site
1) making sure that the Apache server is gzipping its content
2) optimizing css and javascript calls by enabling css and javascript compression in Drupal's performance section
3) downloading and enabling the Block Cache module (Drupal 5.x). I've heard that this feature may be core in 6.x but I have no experience with this.

It might be worth trying it again on your fresh install to see the effects.

Best of luck.

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sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

It seems the original poster is the only one who had "speed issues" -- most likely not really caused by Invite module.