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How to Fix Sluggish Node Adds & Edits in Drupal

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Thu, 2008-02-21 00:00 — willfe

This probably won’t be very interesting to the majority of my readers, but I throw it out there just in case anyway. If you’ve noticed that it’s suddenly taking forever and a day to submit a new node or save an edit to an existing one on a Drupal installation, check out the “Search Engines” page of the settings panel for a module called “XML Sitemap.” Naturally, if you’re not using that module, this doesn’t apply. Anyway, turn off “Submit site map when updated” and turn on “Submit site map on cron run.” This stops a rather painful process from slowly killing your server every time you update the sitemaps by adding or editing nodes — instead of updating them every time anything changes, that process gets moved to the cron runs, so your edits and adds run at normal speed.

Whew. I was beginning to think something was wrong with my installation or my webhost.

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