[development] D7 side effect

[Dave Reid]

Jeff,

This is likely because of all the tables that the Field SQL storage module
creates (2 tables for every field). You may be interested in checking into
the Per-Bundle Storage module (http://drupal.org/project/pbs).

Dave Reid
dave at davereid.net


On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:08 PM, <jeff at ayendesigns.com> wrote:

>  Don't get me wrong, I'm chuffed to mint balls about the D7 effort and the
> result, for many reasons, not least of which is the amazing talent
> represented by it.
>
>
>  That said, I received a letter today from the hoster stating that my
> account was a performance problem because it had over 1000 tables. Eight
> Drupal sites coud be over 1000 tables.
>
>
> I have a hosting account with 'unlimited domains' and up to 25 databases. I
> use the account both for hosting several live domains, most multi site, as
> well as a test area that clients can access for testing changes to existing
> domains. 8 Drupal sites could be over 1000 tables with the typical array of
> add-on modules, let alone that most of these sites are doing e-commerce.
>
>
>  I've let them know that they might want to consider a more meaningful
> indicator of performance issues than a script that counts tables, since
> probably none of these sites does more than 100 transactions per day. If
> they hold firm, I'll blog (and post here) their name.
>
>
>  Jeff
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