By poehnix on

I reported this issue for rc3 but it's the same in rc4
Even with a vanilla installation (no upgrade, no content, no additional modules), accessing admin pages takes many seconds (10-20)(for non authenticated browsing and content creation everything is fine)

My testing environment:
Windows Xp 1 gb ram
Php 5.2
Mysql 5.0,21
Apache 2.0.55

Browsers IE6 Firefox 2.0.11 and Firefox 3.0beta2
It seems apache takes a lot of time to answer the request.

Anyone else has met this issue?

poehnix

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poehnix’s picture

poehnix commented

Seems that In rc3 and rc4 update fails to connect if you're behind a firewall......It seems there is a timeout in the connection. Since it checks at every page load a (temporary) solution might be either disabling the "look for updates" during installation or disabling the module
Hope this helps
poehnix

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pcdinh commented

I have faced the same situation both front end and back end. My test server is as follows:
PHP 5.2.5 (default configuration - No xdebug installed)
Windows XP SP2
RAM 512
Apache 2.2.6
MySQL 5.0

Drupal 6.0 RC4 is deadly slow. It often takes 15-20s to load a page. I also need to increase the maximum execution time to 120s to make Drupal installed or it will fail because it seems that it takes too much time to read the file system (theme.inc at line 889).

I have not tested it on my production server (CentOS 5.0) yet so I can not be sure that it is a Drupal's bug or not.

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poehnix commented

Look in the logs if it says "Unable to fetch updates....". In this case you may either try disabling the upload module or
you may comment the content of the if in hook_cron in the update.module file (/modules/update)
Don't forget to clear cache and disable/enable the module
Hope this helps
poehnix

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natrium commented

thanx a lot !
i am working in a private lan behind a proxy
and disabling the update module resolved the problem
of the slow admin pages !
the log was reporting the message you indicated

thanx again,
natrium

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iancaldwell commented

I had just upgraded to 6.2 and I was racking my brain as to why the admin pages were taking up to 30 seconds to load, while the website itself was still fast. Turning off the update module did the trick - although another good solution would be to have an option to add the proxy server information. I did try the patch shown below, but it seems geared to 6.0 or 6.1, so things went badly for 6.2:
http://drupal.org/node/7881

I can just hope that the proxy setting makes it into a future RC of Drupal!

a319903’s picture

a319903 commented

Thank you for this fix, it worked for me. I am also behind a firewall.

Saved me tons of time.

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JohnnyMoney commented

Thanks, my local installations are running impossibly slow when accessing admin-modules

When you talk about disabling the UPDATE module, you are referring to the STATUS UPDATE module right?

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patrash commented

just deleted entire "modules/update/update.module" file and it works great

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stoickthevast commented

This is a wrong method. You should not be deleting any core modules. You can disable it by going to the modules page and uncheck the "Update" module.

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