[webteam] welcome

[Aaron Axelsen]

Rasmus Lerdorf talked specifically about drupal performance issues in
his presentation at phpTek 07 .. here is a link to his slides
http://talks.php.net/show/tek07/14

The following few slides offer some tools/suggestions for how he got
drupal to have very quick response times.  Is APC currently being used? 
Does anyone know if drupal works with memcache?

Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> On 7/7/07, Florian Holzhauer <fh at fholzhauer.de> wrote:
>> What I just want to throw in the discussion right now is that I've seen
>> several MySQL-outage-errors on xmpp.net / xmpp.org, which lead me to the
>
>> Is drupal capable of doing such things?
>
> Drupal has a very flexible system to deal with high load.  You can
> automatically disable almost any feature when the load reaches a
> threshold.  This way the number of database queries can drastically
> reduced.
>
> I do not think that a requirement of our system should be "is able to
> produce static webpages".  That's kinda like saying my car seems to
> fail after driving 300 miles, therefore everyone in the car must wear
> sturdy shoes so that we can walk the rest of the way.  I think a
> better idea is to figure out why, oh why, does my car stop after 300
> miles???  :)
>
> I think the correct way to deal with the problem is as follows:
>
> 1. Figure out why xmpp.net is going down.
> 2. Use drupal's caching and load-tolerance features
> 3. Code in PHP around potential database failure problems by catching
> the error and redirecting users to an error page which we prepare in
> advance.
>

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