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By gb5256 on
Hi there,
I'm using Drupal 4.7.3, and I want to switch from Joomla to Drupal.
Everything tells me that this is the right thing to do, but my server does react very slow when I'm using Drupal. I still have my old site on a subfolder of the same server with Joomla and this only takes 1to3 seconds for a reload or a request. But my Drupal site takes up to 15 seconds.
This feels like ISDN !!!
Do I have to change somthing on my server?
Do others also have this problem?
gb5256
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Could you describe a little
Could you describe a little bit about your server environment, including:
> Hardware on server; if a shared host, who with and what hosting package you have
> PHP, MySQL, and related package versions
> how Drupal is installed -- what settings you have
> what modules you have installed with Drupal
> Internet connections of (a) your PC, (b) your server (if not an outsourced host)
That might help us break down the problem.
Thanks!
Here are my settings:
Modules:
-aggregator
-archive
-audio
-audio_attach
-audio_getid3
-audio_images
-audio_import
-audio_playlist
-basicevent
-module (4.6 or later).
-block
-blog
-comment
-contact
-event
-flexinode
-forum
-front_page
-help
-image
-image_attach
-image_gallery
-img_assist
-locale
-menu
-node
-page
-path
-playlist
-poll
-profile
-search
-statistics
-story
-system
-taxanomy
-tinymce
-tracker
-upload
-user
-video
-video_customfields
-video_image
-video_multidownload
-video_optmetadata
-video_params
-video_upload
-views
-views_rss
-views_theme_wizard
-views_ui
-watchdog
-watermark
Settings:
Searchfriendly URLS: Active
Site-Cache: Active
Cache-time: none
Nothing else that is not like the orignal files.
Internetconnection: DSL 3000
Sharedhost: hoststar.ch, Package Starentry
Server: Linux tux31 2.4.21-303-athlon
Drupal 4.7.3
PHP 4.4.2
MYSQL 4.0.24
Thanks for your help.
gb5256
My 2 cents
I had simmilar issue once. My server was processing drupal home page for 20 seconds before it was delivered. Using method of exclusion I tracked down module which was causing it (locale btw). It was caused by bad or missing indexes on the tables, which I finally fixed somehow.
It was painfull experience though.
But complex sites on sluggish hardware can go slow with Drupal either way. Then things like php cache (eaccelerator) or mysql cache help a lot. You probably know about drupal caching capabilities.
Also using devel module in such situations is a must.
Maybe it helps.
Found the solution
Hi guys and thank you all for the support.
I disabled the localization for German and switched back to the original english.
The result is, that my drupal runs now as fast as the joomla.
But it would be great if anybody could figure out why the localization makes this behavior.
anyway, thanky all for the hints.
gb5256
the slowing of drupal
the slowing of drupal because of this module has affected many. http://drupal.org/search/node/locale.module
however there is a patch in head (http://drupal.org/node/42463) that will come with the next release of drupal speeding things up considerably.
This also seems to be what jazzmak experienced when missing strings werent being cached.
yes
Yes, it was first solution proposed in your link that worked for me.
I have rather no clue, why it started to happen (increased page load from 3 to 20 sec) only on one of my sites and why those people are having so much time to commit the patch.
Anyway gb5256, good to hear if I (for the first time btw) helped somebody with drupal :)