This tag is for questions about Drupal's performance, how to measure, and improve it.
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Elysia Cron for dummies [closed]
I just cannot see how to set Elysia Cron; I just don't understand the documentation. Help would be much appreciated.
In config/system/cron do I set cron to never, or once every hour?
In ...
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Why does Apache show such drastic differences in memory usage when using mod_php?
I've taken steps to reduce as much as possible the memory footprint of my Apache mod_php processes by disabling Apache modules as well as Drupal modules.
When the server is under light load, I see ...
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Drupal 7 sites hogging my shared hosting account
Two months back I launced 3 new Drupal-7 based sites on my shared hosting account but soon I found that my account was touching maximum process limit of 25 in my account and that my D7 sites were ...
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Drupal + Varnish: cache revalidation
I have Drupal set up with Varnish cache. I have understood almost every part in the process of setting and using the cache. Yet, there is a subject I need some enlightenment on.
Let's say I access my ...
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IE7 IE8 layout broken if advanced aggregation is enabled
When I install & enable Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation, my site layout breaks in IE7 and IE8.
How could that happen? Is there CSS3 in the compiled/compressed CSS? What should I do?
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Nginx vs Apache - Are there any actual usage comparisons and statistcs out there?
I have a new server to play with, and I am staring at a blank canvas. I can put anything I want on it. While I am comfortable with Apache, I keep hearing how nginx can handle so much more traffic than ...
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When building Apache from scratch, what are the minimum modules needed for Drupal to run with clearn URLs?
I have a shiny, new, completely blank box of a LAMP server in front of me. I've heard tales of, even seen pictures of, Apache processes below 30 MB, but I have not seen in it in my Drupal lifetime.
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New Relic: “Application Code (in /theme)”
I have several Drupal sites with which I'm using New Relic to help monitor and debug performance issues.
I've been finding that when viewing the "Web Transactions" section under "Monitoring", that a ...
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How can I decrease my page load times? [closed]
I have worked on a Drupal website, and on the site there is a presentation and videos section.
I have created content types for them, and provided the source URL of the presentation and videos ...
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Unexplained slowness; profiling shows reasonable times and so does ping/wget
I've finally had some time to have an in-depth look at the slowness of my Drupal 7 site. The results are surprising.
ping is a very stable 90ms (UK to California)
wget a PHP script that just prints ...
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Detailed breakdown of what takes Drupal so long?
I'm trying to figure out why my Drupal 7 take so long to render. I've installed the "performance log" module, but it was underwhelming, to say the least. It tells me a page took 2785 ms to render, ...
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Compression in Drupal 7
I am running Drupal (latest version 7.22 ) on Apache 2.2 and I have also installed Varnish (module and proxy). In Apache, I have disabled the mod_deflate module.
Reading around the web, it seems that ...
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Requirements for enabling compress and aggregation files in Drupal 7
Is there any requirement or module that I need to enable in Apache to properly use the option bandwidth optimization in performance? Do I need to enable the deflate module or I just need the headers ...
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Would creating a file hosting service with Drupal be a good idea? [closed]
Just like in the title. Would it be viable or are there some serious concerns about performance etc.? Do you know any file hosting services built with Drupal? Can you suggest an approach to optimizing ...
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Performance Implications when Views JOIN added twice?
I have a view with a flag (relationship, only show flagged nodes). I have modified it a few times and now I see in the query output that views has the join added twice:
INNER JOIN {flag_content} ...
