By sudhaker on

You will feel sluggishness on "administer pages" if your machine has no direct internet access. This problem can be fixed by disabling automatic update while installing the CMS.

Drupal Install >> Configure site (3rd step)

Update notifications: (all the way down)
[ ] Check for updates automatically

Hope this helps others.

For curious heads - Script on admin side is trying to connect to central server for possible updates. This connection attempt always time-outs but only after few seconds; hence causing the sluggish experience.

Cheers,
Sudhaker

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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mental.apparition’s picture

mental.apparition commented

The solution worked for me. I couldn't get drupal6 to run on thumb drive w/ xampp and hitting the administration pages with a workstation install w/ xampp was painfully slow behind the firewall.

Disabling the automatic update during the install seems to resolve this issue and my drupal_dev is on the move again. Thanks!

newms’s picture

newms commented

Thanks. I also had this problem in a development environment and couldn't figure out what was wrong. I just disabled the update status module and the administration pages are zipping along. Of course this is only a dev environment and I'll re-enable update status when the site goes live.

ponderb1’s picture

ponderb1 commented

Thought it was worth adding that you can change this once drupal is installed also. Just go to Administer > Modules and uncheck "update status"

jpl-2’s picture

jpl-2 commented

The solution described didn't work for me. In my case, it turned out to be issue #521838: Clean up drupal_get_schema_versions() causing the slowdown. Having tracked it down, I wrote a blog post describing my general approach to troubleshooting Drupal performance problems, which may be helpful to some.