1. Why Your Moodle Site is Slow: Five Simple Settings
"Here are some simple settings that any Moodle administrator can change from the Site Administration menu that will help to improve his/her Moodle site's performance."
http://opensourceelearning.blogspot.ch/2012/10/why-your-moodle-site-is-slow-five.html
2. How to load test your Moodle server using Loadstorm
"Using this step by step ‘how-to’, you will be able to test how well your Moodle installation would be able to cope with a certain amount of users, using the loadstorm.com service."
http://www.iteachwithmoodle.com/2012/10/11/how-to-stress-test-your-moodle-server-using-loadstorm/
(Found in "Some interesting blog posts that I have read recently"
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/11/06/some-interesting-blog-posts-that-i-have-read-recently/ )
The latter site has a whole "Oktobertest series" on performance related articles:
http://www.iteachwithmoodle.com/?s=Oktobertest. Highly informative.
http://www.iteachwithmoodle.com/?s=Oktobertest. Highly informative.
Hi Visvanath,
Glad you found it hepful. I have ran the same tests against Moodle 2.4 beta - results at http://www.iteachwithmoodle.com/2012/11/17/moodle-2-4-beta-performance-test-comparison-with-moodle-2-3/
Spoiler: it breaks your theory of Moodle following Moore's law
Cheers,
Fred