Re: How many modules is too many?

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 < merlinlogrus.com">merlinlogrus.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
&gt; 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
&gt; > all pages, not just that one).
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim Li wrote:
>; >> Hello,
>; >>
&gt; >> 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).
> >>
&gt; >> Thanks,
&gt; >> Jim
> >
>
>

Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:

(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

Great article... Has anyone figured out what parts of the module architecture are most expensive memory-wise so they can be examined?