May 28th, 2011 | in
by Tim Kamanin
It is so quick that I won't even publish an image with this post ;)
OK, I've recently switched to Wampserver for my dev box and noticed that it is somewhat slow with Drupal 7. Increasing the realpath_cache_size (this is to do with opening a lot of files) put things back to normal. Set realpath_cache_size = 2M in your php.ini file.
Enjoy and have a nice weekend (if you're reading this on Saturday / Sunday).
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Submitted by eigentor on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 18:24
Thanks a million for this tip! Having suffered long and hard from Apache running terribly slow on Windows 7, things got even worse with Drupal 7. As a logged in user, I had often (no kidding) page loading time of 1-2 minutes for the first time the site loads. After that it worked.
Now with that bigger cache, I have the impression it loads much faster. If I am mistaking because the stuff needs to be cached first, at least after that it should be much faster.
Everybody around me uses Macs and I get picked on a lot because of using Windows. But I in a strange way love Windows machines...
Submitted by Tim on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 09:37
Glad it helped you. Well yes, maybe Windows isn't the best thing for web development, but it is still the most popular OS in the world with lots of advantages.
Submitted by dalin on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 05:01
Doesn't WAMP ship with an opcode cache like APC or eAccelerator? I would think that these would bring you a lot more gain than using realpath_cache_size as a stop-gap.
Submitted by Tim on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 09:41
No it doesn't, unfortunatelly, and installing APC will improve things even better, but to me having APC on a dev box is a bit of overkill. PHP APC is to be bundled with PHP6 though.
Submitted by eigentor on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:51
Hm, Am still not sure it was this config setting that helped. But installed D7 on the local machine for the first time after the change. Vroom... DB Tables created in 5 seconds.
But it might as well be the new SSD and core i5 processor :D
Submitted by Rachel on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 22:39
Just came across this today. Way cool! Still takes a bit to initially load up, but admin screens are so much faster.
Submitted by Hussein on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 00:25
Trying this now, hope its speeds up
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