[webteam] welcome

[James Walker]

Hey all, just getting caught up on this list... lots of action all of a
sudden!

On 7/8/07 10:14 AM, Aaron Axelsen wrote:
> 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?

Yes, drupal works with memcache ... although, I'd be real surprised if
the jabber.org/xmpp.net sites need to go there yet.

I will happily take the lead on performance tuning drupal. I know a
thing or two about it...

> 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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