By SpikeX on

I have a fairly large production site, and it's grown increasingly slow over the past few months. I've tried boosting my server memory, but that didn't help. My pages will hang for 8-20 seconds before rendering in a browser, and I don't know the cause.

So, I have two questions.

1. I can't access my module administration page. I get a 404 every time I try to load it because it takes too long. How can I access it safely, without breaking anything on the rest of the site?

2. Again, my page load times are extremely high, and I suspect a faulty module somewhere. I would turn each one on and off, but I have way too many modules installed on this site for that to be a viable solution. Is there some module that can determine which modules are using up more memory than others, or something similar to that? I've looked at Devel already, but I don't think it suits this particular problem, as I need to narrow it down to a per-module basis.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, in either of the matters above, or just general tips on how to keep page load times down on a heavily-customized Drupal site. Thanks! :)

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steveadamo’s picture

steveadamo commented

with regards to getting your module admin page to load, you could try tweaking the values in your php.ini file... specifically look in the Resource Limits section...

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

upping those values should give you more breathing room when trying to load the page...

SpikeX’s picture

SpikeX commented

Thanks, I'll try that.

Anyone else have any suggestions on debugging a slow site?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

you can also try disabling the update status module (if you use it).

SpikeX’s picture

SpikeX commented

Is that the module that checks Drupal.org for any module updates? I think I have that one disabled.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

yep-- that's the one.

SpikeX’s picture

SpikeX commented

Yeah, that's already disabled for me, and my modules page still won't load (I increased the memory limit, too, just to try that - still didn't work).

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

..hosting company?

SpikeX’s picture

SpikeX commented

DreamHost. Dedicated private server with 2GB of memory.

The host isn't the issue.