Do you know what the fatal error was when you tried to activate CCK? Even if your web server is running smoothly, I wonder how much load is on the database server - does MySQL reside on the same machine as the website server?

What version of Drupal is this? 5.x? 6.x? 7.x? More details would be helpful - I'm certainly not a guru when it comes to Drupal (yet, although I've learned a lot, and am learning a lot more, very fast), but anything you can give us will help the rest of us try to help you.

It sounds like you uninstalled all of your unnecessary modules. Was there a point where Drupal was NOT running slow on your website? Have you tried reinstalling the whole system? (delete everything, don't just upgrade or something). If you were able to get rid of all your modules, it sounds like it wouldn't be that big of a deal to start over.

Good luck,
David

Yeah sorry I should have put more info up.

I'm Drupal 6.12 latest version. The fatal error was: Fatal error:
Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in D:\wwwsites\truevine1611com\www\includes\file.inc on line 891

I don't know if the database server is on the same machine as the website server. I think I'm going to ask my client if I can contact their hosting server.

Also at the time this happened everything on the drupal admin page ran smoothly. The only hang up I would get is clicking on the modules menu and trying to active modules.

Below was my Devel Module information:
Executed 1387 queries in 16027.31 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time was 19396.39 ms.

And now I don't know what I did... I thought maybe reinstalling the modules, delete and then recreate the data base with same info, then reinstall Drupal would do something. Now I can run the install.php, but it won't go pass the selecting of the english language... below is the error I got.

FastCGI Error
The FastCGI Handler was unable to process the request.

Error Details:

* The FastCGI process exceeded configured request timeout
* Error Number: 258 (0x80070102).
* Error Description: The wait operation timed out.

HTTP Error 500 - Server Error.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

I'm also thinking it could be the mySQL they are using.... it's phpMyAdmin 2.9.2 ..... aren't they up to version 5 now?

The link is www.truevine1611.com if that helps any also... but like I said now that I deleted and recreated the database I can't get past languages on the install... sigh.

PS: the site comes up blank now.

Sorry about these updates... I'm assuming it's a module that's doing something. I trashed all the modules and now it got past the languages... I guess I'll have to download each module to make sure they are up to date. Cause I use the same modules on other sites and had no problems... unless a module is conflicting with something.

Try disabling the "Update Status" module. It seems to have some issues. When you press "Submit" on the modules page, it clears out the Update Status cache. Then while you're on any admin page it will either check for updates or use the cache.

Thanks Bishop, that's one of the first things I did due to my drupal.org forum search. They suggested doing that. It does speed up the overall admin pages. But it didn't solve my problem with the module page though. I know it can take time to load due to the modules and such. Hopefully making sure the models are updated will help.

How many modules do you have on the site (not just the installed ones)?

Hey Matt,

I have about 20 modules maybe. Just basic ones like CCK, audio, wysiwyg, etc. Everything seems to be working okay now after I made sure all modules were updated. So I guess maybe an out of date module brought it to a stop? The module page is still kinda slow, but nothing patients can't handle... and I assume shouldn't be as fast as the other admin pages.

The modules page might be the slowest page in drupal. It doesn't just deal with the installed modules but every possible module you would want to turn on for your site so it's a bit of a performance drag.