Hi everyone,
According to devel module , my page load time (on local server) is about 650ms (30ms is for queries) and i have APC installed. it's very high i think!!.
What is your page load time , is it natural in druapl? or my system is so slow!

CPU : AMD Athlon X2 3800
RAM : 1 GIG
OS : Windows XP SP2
Server : XAMPP (Apache2, PHP5)

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morecakepls’s picture

Are you using a heavy theme or is it the default theme? http://wimleers.com/article/improving-drupals-page-loading-performance

sinasalek’s picture

Thanks for the reply.

No my theme is not heavy and i have few blocks enabled. also i have very few nodes and taxonomies. in some very light admin pages (like admin/settings/performance) it reduces to 350ms, but it's still so slow, and it means it can barely handle even 8 visitors at the same time even on my development machine which is actually like a non optimized dedicated server.

I already applied most of the suggestions in the the link you mentioned. but those optimizations are for after generating and sending the page to client not before that. my problem is the time php consumes for generating the page dynamically.
my site YSlow grade is 63.

Here (http://buytaert.net/drupal-webserver-configurations-compared) as you can see, dries mentioned that his test server with similar hardware performance to mine with lots of content and no optimization can handle i guess 3 authenticated users per second in front page. according to his benchmark , the drupal on my development machine should fly, the only thing i can think of is something wrong with either my server or my drupal installation. :( but the problem is i don't know what is that!

How much is your page generation time?

I really appreciate any kind of help :)

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kbahey’s picture

Do you have an accelerator installed? APC or eAccelerator?

If you do, then 650 is a bit high. If not, then install one.
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sinasalek’s picture

Hi, thanks for the reply
I enabled eaccelerator with the following configuration and page generation time is now 480 MS!! only 25% improvement!!. you said a bit high, does it mean that everyone have the same issue? because even 300MS on dedicated machine is hight (specially for a site with almost no content).

[eaccelerator]
zend_extension_ts="D:\Programs\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\ext\eAccelerator.dll"
zend_extension="D:\Programs\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\ext\eAccelerator.dll"
eaccelerator.cache_dir = "D:\Programs\wamp\tmp\eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.shm_size="64"
eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="1"
eaccelerator.debug ="0"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="1"
eaccelerator.filter=""
eaccelerator.shm_max="0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl ="0"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="0"
eaccelerator.shm_only="0"
eaccelerator.compress="1"
eaccelerator.compress_level="9"
eaccelerator.keys= "shm"
eaccelerator.sessions="shm"
eaccelerator.c
zend_extension="D:\Programs\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\ext\eLoader.dll"

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tingtong’s picture

I am using shared hosting. Where can I check if my hosting company provide APC or eAccelerator? Can I install it myself and where to get this program?

vm’s picture

you can file a support request with your host and ask them. Typically shared hosts don't allow you to add things of this nature without being on a VPS or dedicated plan.

As far as where to download it GIYF = google.com/search?hl=en&q=eAccelerator

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junphine’s picture

Yes.my drupal page load time is also big than 650ms,and I have installed APC.
I think it is because APC is not very effecive in windows than unix.
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