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.
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