[development] How many modules is too many?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

(Changing the subject)

I regularly see 80+ to 110+, and that causes Apache to eat 100MB per
process, which is really not good ...

This is the open buffet binge syndrome detailed here:

http://2bits.com/articles/server-indigestion-the-drupal-contributed-modules-open-buffet-binge-syndrome.html

On Nov 21, 2007 12:50 PM, Jim Li <jimmydami at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool, thanks!
> It'd be interesting to have a poll on how many modules people use on a
> social network site. I heard someone uses 160 modules at his dev site,
> it may go down a bit later, but it probably will still in the 100+
> ragnge :)
>
> On Nov 20, 2007 6:31 PM, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:
> > On the other hand, having 150+ modules load *is* going to eat a whole
> > lot of memory; so actually activating all these modules is a really bad
> > idea.
> >
> > And yes, the modules page under 4.7 is going to choke like [insert
> > really bad sports team metaphor here].
> >
> >
> > Sean Robertson wrote:
> > > As I understand it, Drupal 5+ no longer does that.  That's what the
> > > .info files are for.  Those files are only a couple hundred bytes each
> > > so the full page even with a ton of modules downloaded should only use
> a
> > > small amount of memory unless you enable them all (which would affect
> > > all pages, not just that one).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim Li wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I saw some complaints that admin/build/modules page loads all modules
> > >> and eats up lots of memory. And I heard a story that somebody new to
> > >> drupal was trying to evaluate >150 modules and eventually drupal
> > >> 'crashed' on this page due to memory limit. So I am just wondering is
> > >> it a good idea that we use tabs to separate module groups on
> > >> admin/build/modules page? Will it help with the problem? We can have
> > >> three tabs: core, contrib, oh and uninstall (which will need some
> > >> speical css rendering).
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Jim
> > >
> >
> >
>



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