27 Feb
2006
27 Feb
'06
8:31 a.m.
On 27 Feb 2006, at 01:34, Benson Wong wrote:
1. Use a PHP cache:
I found that using APC speeds up Drupal by a lot, 3 to 5 times the pages view per second. This was _literally_ a 5 minute install (on FreeBSD) for a 300% to 500% performance improvement. I think at that point it was my dev servers SATA HDDs were the bottle neck. It sits beside me and when I hit it with ab, I can hear the HDDs wrrrrr like crazy.
Small nit: sounds like lack of memory could be the bottleneck, not necessarily your disks. With enough memory, both Drupal's source files and your database is kept in memory. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/