<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 26, 2006, at 8:18 AM, Clara Hurst wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">but still feel very unease in terms of coming up with a set of server capacity requirements, any pointers or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Ah yes! Another multi-thousand word thread on performance and scalability with no changes in the handbook :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here's the new page to help consultants make server requirement recommendations: <A href="http://drupal.org/node/57600">http://drupal.org/node/57600</A> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks to John for his efforts in keeping things real and testing out some of the performance tools. Thanks to Chris for testing as well. Khalid please keep pushing your patch to remove engine types from Drupal's database.mysql.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We updated the Devel module to measure memory usage for modules: <A href="http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/devel/devel.module?r1=1.66&r2=1.67">http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/devel/devel.module?r1=1.66&r2=1.67</A></DIV><DIV>We have updated our MySQL tuning snippet to include InnoDB memory usage as well: <A href="http://drupal.org/node/50291">http://drupal.org/node/50291</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We are still looking for folks to help pay for our File Caching patch for 4.6, 4.7, and support it's inclusion in 4.8. We saw 6x performance improvements for anonymous pages, and combined with a static page web server it could go even higher.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>Kieran</DIV></BODY></HTML>