Problem
A problem that a lot of people seem to encounter when working with Drupal and especially after a new installation, is the fact that the admin section loads very slow or sometimes not at all. This is due to the fact that Drupal by default is configured to automatically check for updates. Often this is blocked however causing Drupal to keep trying.
Solution
You could solve this by disabling the Update module in the Modules section but sometimes it’s impossible to get to that page due to the problem.
A second option is to disable it manually by going to the ’system’ table in your Drupal MySQL database, explore the table and look for the ”modules/update/update.module’ entry.
Once you have found it, edit the status field of the module to 0 (should have been 1). Your problem is most likely fixed now.
Some pointers:
- Drupal needs at least 16MB to run properly - if you feel your local configuration is running very slow, verify your apache settings and change the memory limit to a higher number (like 64M)
- Importing sql.zips can sometimes fail, in this case you could try adjusting the maximum allowed packet size in your mysql settings.
==> the best solution however is to export all your tables except the ‘watchdog’ table and every table with ‘cache’ in it’s tablename as these are the ones to take up most of the volume.
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