Upgrading Drupal

Needless to say despite my having upgraded and ironing out kinks with issues, my Drupal installation is now out of date since yesterday. I upgraded my previous installation 5.2 to 5.10, over this last week. Under very little load the site seemed marginally slower, now that the upgrade site is live to the world, it's bogged down with hits.

The frontpage of the site is taking an excruciating long period of time to load... to be exact: 12273.23 ms (painful I know)

Here is what I have done
1. Increased php memory from 32MB to 64MB, the server has plenty, so this didn't seem like a huge leap for me, I even went higher, but things seem to get even worse with more memory (perhaps because of swapping)
2. I have gone into my logs, and tried to resolve any outstanding errors that may be occurring.
3. Disabled modules I know I am not using right now, Forum, Statistics, and a few others.

There are 2 functions of my site I think are big killers here, and that is the calendaring (calendar, cck, date), and the image gallery (image, imageapi, imagecache)

Here is a rundown of devel on the frontpage of the site (almost every other line, if not more, gets marked red btw):


40.49 1 drupal_lookup_path SELECT COUNT(pid) FROM url_alias
17.06 1 drupal_lookup_path SELECT src FROM url_alias WHERE dst = 'frontpage'

So I see that the there is a new version (6.5) out and I should upgrade, but If you follow the directions to a "T" then that means that I have to back up my sites Dir which now has about 2 gigs of data in it (lots of photos) and then reupload that as well. That is going to take quite a bit of time, and I really do not want my site to be down that long (ok not down, but offline...)

Is there an easier way to do this? A quicker way to do this? Am I missing something?

Ian

I've got a 6.4 site, and I just upgraded to 6.5. No extra modules, just drupal core. Set site offline, copied new files to server, copied across files directory, .htaccess & settings.php. Ran upgrade.php script which updated 1 thing (I forget what, sorry).

I am trying to upgrade; however after running upgrade.php it shows no update... still 6.4??? What is wrong with this problem????

I have uploaded the files twice with my ftp client and overwritten the old ones. Should I make a completely new directory and rename the old drupal directory on my server or what?

Hello,
i have tried to get my drupal site on another server. I have imported my MySql Dump in my new MySQL version5, eversthing wents fine. Then i copied the drupal files to the server and changed database connection string. The Connection is working. But when i try to go on the website i only get the drupal message: the site is unter construction. Is everyone there, that has an idea?

Thomas

Can I upgrade 4.7.4 to 6.4 using Fantastico?