Using the dev 1.x version from the beginning of october I discovered that Skinr was the culprit that was causing long pageload times on the drupal installation on my laptop.
It's a Windows 7 based XAMPP installation.

I observed the following on the sandbox website on my laptop:
Skinr disabled: pageload times for frontpage or subpage = 3-4 seconds
Skinr enabled: pageload times for frontpage or subpage = 10-14 seconds

Then I tried this out on a clean drupal installation running an unmodified Garland:
Skinr disabled: pageload times for frontpage or subpage = 500-1200 milliseconds
Skinr enabled: pageload times for frontpage or subpage = 3-4 seconds

I upgraded to the latest dev 1.1 and the problem persisted.

It is clear that the problem is in php execution and not in MySQL:
Executed 241 queries in 212.43 milliseconds . Queries taking longer than 20 ms and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time was 10646.78 ms .

For control I tried disabling eaccelerator which only resulted in even slower pageload times.
I dont know if this problem also exists on a linux installation.

Let me know if you need any additional testing or information!

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jurriaanroelofs’s picture

jurriaanroelofs commented

note: it made no difference if there is a Skinr-enabled theme loaded, or even present in the themes folder.

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venusrising commented

Thanks for the headups. I will bypass for now then.

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glennpratt commented

I'm not seeing this issue on IIS7/FastCGI. I loaded several pages with and without Skinr and all averaged around 300ms page execution time.

I'll try to test it on Apache when I get a chance.

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moonray commented

I've done some performance testing, and I have to agree with glennpratt. I've tested it with Apache, and don't see a performance decrease when skinr is enabled (execution times were about the same with and without skinr enabled).

My only thought is that perhaps some other module is conflicting with skinr to bring about those long loading times.

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moonray commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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moonray commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

No more reports have come in on this issue. Marking it as resolved.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.