Hardware and performance

We have been running 2.3.1+ in production since August and have been running 2.3.2+ since Oct 5th. Our Moodle installation doesn't have as many users, ~70k, and we run on 1 webserver and 1 DB. Here are more details:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=212411&parent=930374

We have upgraded every August and December to stay current with latest 2.x release. Our upgrade from Moodle 2.2 to Moodle 2.3 did not see performance hits on the server side. We did see a performance change on the client side loading all the JS and AJAX for drag and drop when turning on editing in a course. When turning on editing, the page still loads fast but the javascript takes about 10 secs to finish to the point where you get the message "Drag and drop files onto course sections to upload them." There are tracker issues working on this, for example, MDL-34328, MDL-35569, and MDL-35672.

I beleive the MUC is still waiting integration, see MDL-34224. I would be interested in helping test the MUC. It looks like Tim Barker is working on developing a test procedure for the MUC for 2.4, see MDLTEST-328.

Hi

Unlike the previous posters, I can't claim to have experience in Moodle installations of 100 k users. Still, I hope my obervations of the (relative) ressource consumption along various Moodle versions is of some use.

1. You are lucky, if you don't have performance problems with 90 k users on Moodle 2.0. Either they are not heavy users or your armada of machines keep them at bay. Read the "Performance FAQ -> "How do you define concurrent_users?" to get the kind of usage pattern we are interested in.

2. Every new generation of Moodle arrived with a huge performance loss. The change from 1.6 to 1.7 was one. To get those things ironed out needs time. They improved along -> 1.8 -> 1.9. Specially, during the long reign of 1.9 it got very efficient.

The whole thing started again with the move to 2.0. As Sam mentioned, 2.0 was "beta". I don't know first hand how the performance story really continued. My guess is that, at the present rate of new major releases, one in every 6 months, there is simply no time for optimazation. Sam mentioned a slight improvement going from 2.2 to 2.3. Go through the discussions in this forum yourself.

If the history repeats itself, there should be another blow around 2.3 or 2.4.

3. Since you are already in 2.0 you have no choice other than moving to 2.2. 2.0 and 2.1 are already discontinued (ironically 1.9 not). The prescribed path to 2.3 goes over 2.2.

But all these "statistical" discussions are of no use to an individual. You are concerned about one Moodle installation, that of yours. Only you can find the answer by testing the future installation. There are lot of information in the performance documentation linked in the introduction to this forum.