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Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By : T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James
Book Image

Drupal 6 Performance Tips

By: T J Holowaychuk, Trevor James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most respected and widely used open source content management frameworks.&nbsp; Small, medium, and large-scale websites are built using Drupal and the framework supports ecommerce, CRM, multisite and web service integrations.&nbsp; <br /><br />Once you get your Drupal site installed and up and running, you will be concerned with site performance and how fast you can make your Drupal site run.&nbsp; This book will focus on implementing performance modules and solutions to help speed up your Drupal website.<br /><br />We will look at introductory topics such as upgrading your Drupal site, maintaining your site, and enabling core Drupal page compression and caching. <br />&nbsp;<br />Then we will turn to an advanced look at some contributed modules that help speed up performance, including Development, Boost, Authcache, Advanced Cache, and the Memcache API and Integration module.<br /><br />Finally, we&rsquo;ll look at how best to implement a Drupal multisite environment and run it with high-speed performance in mind.<br /><br />This book is designed for Drupal developers and webmasters who want to increase their Drupal site&rsquo;s speed and performance.&nbsp; You will take your Drupal site to the next level by not only displaying relevant and newsworthy content, but also running a powerful and high-speed website.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Drupal 6 Performance Tips
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Viewing and inspecting recent log entries


The Drupal Dblog (formerly called Watchdog in earlier Drupal versions) module keeps recent log entries in your Drupal administration as long as you have not cleared your performance cache. You can tell Drupal how long you want to keep the log entries stored in your site's database.

Viewing your recent log entries

Having saved the configuration settings, launch the Recent log entries report pages by going to Administer | Reports | Recent log entries. This will launch the following page: http://variantcube.com/fire/admin/reports/dblog

The logs will be displayed in a table by Type, Date, and the detailed log Message or error. Errors will be noted with a red X icon, and warnings will be flagged with a yellow exclamation point icon. For example, a php error will usually throw a red X line item, while a page not found error will show a yellow exclamation point warning. A column is also presented in the log entries table showing the user account and session...