Localization and very bad performance

[andro01]

I upgraded the CiviCRM version last week (from 3.xx) and ran into a huge performance problem. CiviCRM pages within Drupal take more than a minute to load and time-out. When I changed the language back to US-English it seems to work fine again.

I tried it several time to see if minor tweaks would change things. But it doesn't. Setting the language to NL gives me the problem.

Btw.. this is a clean install. I was not able to upgrade my current installation and am migrating with down and uploads.

Does anyone know what the problem might be with the performance?

[Coleman Watts]

If you have not installed php gettext that can make a huge difference.
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+Localisation#CiviCRMLocalisation-Usingnativegettextsupport/setlocale

[andro01]

Thank you.. I'll talk to the hosting provider to see if it is installed (don't have shell access myself)

[mathieu]

Native Gettext is usually compiled in PHP, and it is usually present. The main issue is making sure that the operating system has enabled the "locale" for nl_NL.utf8 ("locale -a" .. which reminds me that we could probably do some of these checks from within CiviCRM). If you are in NL, and your hosting provider is a NL-based organisation, in 90% of cases, they probably support it.

Just to clarify, because the PHP packages are really confusing: "php-gettext" is a library written in PHP that provides gettext emulation. This is what CiviCRM uses by default. Native gettext is compiled in CiviCRM.  (the documentation is currently a bit of a mess, any help is much appreciated :-)