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On Thursday February 19, 2009, Khalid gave a presentation on Integrating Nagios with Drupal at the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group.
We have announced this integration a few weeks ago.
The slides from the presentation are attached below.
Thanks to all of those who braved the cold snap and showed up for the Drupal Users Group monthly meeting for January 2009.
This was a case study on a site that was forced to move from a shared host to a VPS, yet was still slow, and how we diagnosed the problem, and found a solution for it.
Here are the slides for the talk, in PDF format.
Many Drupal developers use Subversion (SVN) internally within their organization, due to its many benefits over what the Drupal project's repository uses: the dated CVS.
One annoying aspect though is that almost all Drupal files use CVS style tags, such as the $Id$ one. Subversion does not recognize these by default.
We had a need from a client where they wanted to check certain complex conditions from a relatively big decision matrix. Without going into specifics, they wanted to check a progressive set of rules for users and taking certain actions when all the conditions were met.
Checking one or two conditions is not a problem on a modern day web site, but because the rules are progressive and have to be all checked from the start every time, that involves a lot of processing, a lot of database queries and basically a lot of time.
As we observed before, configuring APC with low memory can be a drag on performance, causing high executing times.
We saw this recently for a client with a large web site on a dedicated server that approached 2bits.com for performance tuning.
A frequent problem we see at client sites is when they click submit on a page, whether it is a creation of a node or a comment, and then the site does not come back for several minutes.
Earlier this month, we published an article on benchmarking Drupal 5.x vs. 6.x: which one faster?
We wanted to take this analysis a step further and benchmark them both with Drupal 7.x as well.
So, we got a checkout of Drupal 7.x as of October 24th, when update.php starting working for that version. We also used Drupal 5.12, and Drupal 6.6 which are the current and previous stable versions.
At the last Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group meeting, Lana mentioned a benchmark of Drupal 5.8 vs. Drupal 6.3 by Vision Media in Victoria.
The benchmark concludes that Drupal 5 is faster than Drupal 6.
Intrigued by this benchmark, we proceeded to replicate it in a rigorous fashion.
One client of ours was facing severe issues with their relatively new well equipped server: the server stopped responding to web requests, and was rebooted, only to stop responding again.
Upon investigation, we found out that pages were taking a lot of time to load.
This only happened when viewing a node in full page view, not when the
nodes were in lists (just as in views, node edit form ...etc.)
Devel was showing this:
Dynamic web applications like Drupal offer a lot of benefits for a web site. However, when it comes to scalability, there can be challenges with any dynamic web site, including those build with Drupal.
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