Our Magento store is getting too slow and taking around 1 minute to load page. I have seen below output in profiler, can you please let us know what is the db_update things and why it takes too much time and how do we fix this.
layout/db_update: default 20.6206 1 0 0
layout/db_update: STORE_default 20.6189 1 0 0
layout/db_update: MAP_popup 20.6146 1 0 0
layout/db_update: MAP_price_msrp_item 20.6131 1 0 0
layout/db_update: SHORTCUT_popup 20.6116 1 0 0
layout/db_update: SHORTCUT_uk_popup 20.6098 1 0 0
layout/db_update: catalog_product_view 20.6077 1 0 0
layout/db_update: PRODUCT_TYPE_simple 20.6062 1 0 0
layout/db_update: customer_logged_out 20.6032 1 0 0
You can use
Aoe_Profiler
extension to debug the details. You can install it from here: https://github.com/AOEpeople/Aoe_ProfilerAlso follow this tutorial: http://fbrnc.net/blog/2012/08/magento-profiler#hello
I think it will help you to optimize the time taken by various threads.