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What software does KernelTrap use?

August 5, 2003 - 1:56pm
Submitted by Jeremy on August 5, 2003 - 1:56pm.

The KernelTrap pages are managed by Drupal, a modular content management engine written in PHP with a MySQL backend. The site is hosted on a Linux server running Apache.

Which version of Drupal?

January 18, 2007 - 8:14am
David Montgomery (not verified)

I am on the verge of writing a new site and I was going to use Joomla, but like the look of this site. I note that Drupal have just launched a new version of their CMS - is Kernel trap on the old version or the new version and do you know what the differences are, if you are on the old version?

4.7

January 18, 2007 - 3:20pm

KernelTrap is currently using Drupal 4.7. Find more information about Drupal 5.0 here.

5

June 7, 2007 - 8:31pm

KernelTrap is now using Drupal 5.

How so fast?

September 28, 2007 - 7:25am
David Wilson of Mpls (not verified)

I'm impressed with the speed of the site. What kind of cache-ing is used? Apache? PHP op-code? which one?

Caches

September 28, 2007 - 8:12am

There are multiple levels of caches. We're using MySQL's query cache. And APC as an op-code cache. And Drupal's caching layer (most beneficial for non-logged-in users such as yourself), tuned to enforce a minimum cache lifetime of 5 minutes. Custom code is constantly being evaluated for performance, with poorly performing queries optimized.

I need to set up a DB slave some time soon, as our regular backups cause problems when the mailarchives get busy. Actually, the mailarchive software can stand to be optimized quite a bit more utilizing the Drupal caching layer for expensive queries (ie "subject LIKE '%...%'" across our entire lkml archive...)

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