MAMP Benchmarking I'm running ZWAMP WAMP stack on my local development machine. However I have found it to be very slow at serving pages from a Drupal site I have setup.

I'm running ZWAMP WAMP stack on my local development machine. However I have found it to be very slow at serving pages from a Drupal site I have setup. By contrast, my live production site on shared hosting is reasonably quick.

For me the goal with a local WAMP stack was to develop offline and send completed work to the live production site.

I liked ZWAMP because it didn't require adjustments to User Access Control or other permissions.

I've looked at Drupal Acquia Development Stack but found this too restrictive: only one site instance/doc root can be installed.

I've looked at other DAMP stacks and heard reports of them being slow.

My local development machine that I am running the WAMP stack on is a Dual Core 2.6Ghz hyperthreaded Intel i7, 4Gb RAM, 7200rpm hard disk, running Windows 64bit professional. Surely this is fast enough.

So I'm looking for:

Causes of the slowness of the WAMP and how to improve the speed
Benchmark data of various WAMP stacks

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@Margaret670

You will experience a difference in performance anyway, regardless of what environment you use.

I used to use WampServer and I would find this quite slow sometimes, similar to what you have explained. I then started using XAMPP and have found it to run much better, although sites on my XAMPP installation are still noticeably slower.

Recently though I have developed on my laptop which runs Fedora 17, using Apache, MySQL and BlueFish as an editor. This has been the best solution for me in terms of performance. You could use a VirtualBox instance, but I feel that this may just slow your computer down altogether. I would try XAMPP first, and if your problems still persist try maybe dual-booting to a Linux instance.

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I am seriously considering a VirtualBox environment on my Windows machine to run a flavour of Linux and a LAMP stack with my Drupal site(s) on. Hopefully this doesn't have the same bottle necks as the WAMP stack.

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