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Performance Tuning Drupal - 10 Good Links

Posted Wed, 09/09/2009 - 10:45am by Scott Price

I was in a meeting this morning with our development team, and we have a desire to run some load tests against Drupal. We want to find out how Drupal performs on a standard Amazon EC2 small instance. We believe LoadStorm can do a good job of stressing an out-of-the-box Drupal application implementation. Not sure if we want to use a LAMP or MS stack yet, and we are open for suggestions.

Anybody interested in this type of tech study?

With the load testing information, we want to try some Drupal performance tuning. Finding bottlenecks, adjusting configuration, implementing caching, tweaking the database.

So, I started researching the topic and want to share some of the interesting links that I have found thus far. If you like these, please let me know. If you have any to add, please share those with us in a comment. Feel free to link to some of your own content that may be relevant.

  • Comparison of Drupal, Joomla, Typo3 Performance - http://blogs.helion-prime.com/alexshapovalov/2008/05/19/typo3-joomla-and-drupal-cmss-performance-testing.html
  • Links and Resources on Performance Optimization for Drupal - http://2bits.com/articles/links-and-resources-on-drupal-performance-tuning-and-optimization.html
  • Drupal Performance Tuning - http://groups.drupal.org/node/16126
  • Drupal Caching Speed and Performance - http://drupal.org/node/326504
  • Server Tuning - http://drupal.org/node/2601 Apache is bandwidth limited, PHP is CPU limited, and MySQL is memory limited and disk I/O bound.
  • Case Study about Op-code Caching - http://2bits.com/articles/php-op-code-caches-accelerators-a-must-for-a-large-site.html - very good, but very specific. Uses Munin for monitoring tool graphs http://munin.projects.linpro.no/
  • Tuning MySQL for Drupal - http://drupal.org/node/51263
  • Performance Tuning Apache & MySQL for Drupal - http://drupal.org/node/215516
  • Does anyone offer Drupal performance tuning services? - http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/consulting/2009-April/003300.html
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Comments

Nice post. I was checking

by Jim Santander - Oct 21 2012 - 4:46am

Nice post. I was checking this blog for performance tuning tips and I'm impressed! Extremely useful information particularly about Drupal optimization. Thank you and now I'll try the load testing tool.

It would be great if your

by Anonymous - Jan 31 2010 - 4:23am

It would be great if your service could add a specific Drupal focus, if required.

You're obviously looking into Drupal performance details already, but it might make sense to also include the CCK and Views modules into a baseline configuration, since these would be integral to most performance critical Drupal sites out there.

This sounds very interesting, though...

Good idea. We are

by Scott Price - Jan 31 2010 - 7:04pm

Good idea. We are comfortable with CCK and Views. It should be a good addition to the Drupal config.

How would you suggest we modify the product to make it more Drupal-focused? We are Drupal users, so your ideas have intrigue.

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