By algeorge on

Latest updates, have CRON, checked database which has about 300 records. Its actually slower than running web browser on live sites. Have checked PHPmyadmin (using EasyPHP V2.0.0) PHP version is 5. Got me stymied that a localhost installation should be slow as making development tedious. I did a search and there has been quite a bit of comment from others about Drupal development mode being very slow, yet when its live it performs!

I have just clicked Drupal 'My Account' which slowly loads, then I click 'Administration' it took over 8 seconds to load that page. What is weird is even clicking same links as before, the cache of browser does not bring the pages up any faster. I've disabled Antivirus and Adblock in FF. Used IE and its about 2 seconds faster on same pages. Is this typical - surely not?

Anything I can do to check other possible causes? I only installed Drupal a day ago, so everything is fresh. Although I have used EasyPHP with Joomla and others without this extraordinary experience.
Thanks,
Al.

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tdimg commented

well you don't really tell us your development environment, what sort of server you're using, what OS, ...

Basically, if you're using Xampp on Windows Vista with 2GB Ram, then there's no surprise there. Web servers are optimised to run what they're designed to do, your local machine isn't.

Drupal is also more complex than what you seem to have been using so far, so it needs more resources. there are means to enhance Drupal's performance, check out its Performance settings. However, you shouldn't activate those before your site is ready to go.

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algeorge commented

//well you don't really tell us your development environment, what sort of server you're using, what OS

Previous: Have checked PHPmyadmin (using EasyPHP V2.0.0) PHP version is 5.
Winxp with 4G ram on a 2.4Ghz fast machine.

I cant accept that Drupal would be hugely slower than Joomla, but it is on the same machine.

Tried performance settings which made no difference and as said, its a new installation, so the caches are fresh, the database is miserly, CRON has been run with update.php.

Im wondering if setting up a LAMP in Linux would make huge difference? The way it works now is not acceptable.

Being on another PC at the moment I found this which I'll try some of the options and if any work will get back:
http://drupal.org/node/206829

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bojanz commented

Running Drupal on Windows sucks. Increadibly slow.
Your browser might be doing extra IPv6 lookups, that can sometimes be the cause of slowdowns.
Also, try changing your browser (to me, Firefox dragged more than Chrome)

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

If your pc is behind a firewall, it is probably the update status core module causing the problem. This module calls home to drupal main site to check if your modules are up to date. If behind a firewall, it makes the admin pages VERY slow.

you can either disable the update status module or patch it to work from behind a firewall.

google "drupal6 admin slow".

If you want to patch, the patch is documented somewhere else on this site.

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algeorge commented

Thanx not the issue; firewall disabled

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Is your pc behind a corporate firewall / proxy server?

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algeorge commented

Firewalls - no. Ive installed it now on 2 machines and also tried an aquilla install which was meant to resolve a few problems with speed but that did not seem to help. I have noticed on demo videos that Drupal runs quite slow too, not as bad as what experience here, but about half that rate. I will live with it and if anything makes an improvement will advise on this thread thanks folks for your time. Alistair.

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amenko commented

Set your browser proxy settings to "No Proxy", tell me if this helps

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algeorge commented

Sorry for delay; I have been using it on remote host which has been much faster than local, but just today I set up local to allow patching (my windows server does not run patch). Unfortunately, No Proxy is the same.
I have 2Mb/s adsl, but thats at least twice as fast as my Drupal sites localhost!

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amenko commented

How about this....

try clearing up your sites caches and your browsers history, setting Localhost to No Proxy should work, or try unchecking some modules that you really not need to use at this time, clearing up cron in mysql or in your DB may help but, its has much technical steps to do that, i guess that you know it also, if not, heres the step

note:backup your DB first (this works good to mysql)

then...

---go to mysql or phpmyadmin
---type or do this sql queries:

DELETE FROM variable WHERE name="cron_semaphore";
DELETE FROM variable WHERE name = "cron_last";

---then clear all the cached of your website

---cron will run

after this cron will run for how many minutes, because Drupal will detect that cron has never been run

note:backup your DB first

good luck!

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muratsalma commented

zend server works very fast on windows
check this article:
http://muratsalma.com/en/blog/drupal-is-running-slow-on-localhostwindows