PHP 4.0 Bug #7848 Updated: IMAP is very slow in CGI version

ID: 7848 Updated by: dbeu Reported By: cahagn_o@epita.fr Status: Feedback Bug Type: Performance problem Assigned To: Comments: can you trace it back to a specific funtion? Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-16 12:45:59] cahagn_o@epita.fr I (with a friend) coded a webmail client in PHP (re-written from Perl), available at: http://nocc.sourceforge.net/ It's very fast when PHP is loaded as a module with Apache (3 seconds to display a mailbox list from POP3 or IMAP server) but the CGI version takes around 2 or 3 minutes to display anything. Even when disabling the default mailbox sorting feature, it takes very long, but at least it won't fail with Windows 2k+Apache+PHP cgi with the 30 seconds max. exceeded. I know this is a light bug report but I really wonder why it's so slow, every other cgi with the same php binary is very fast and the same webmail client coded with Perl is much faster than the PHP equivalent whereas, generally speaking, for my experience, my PHP scripts are faster than my other scripts written in Perl, sh, etc. (except C :). The accessed mail servers are local and I tried NetBSD, Linux, Windows 2000. I use the latest PHP from snaps.php.net or php4win.de See http://www.epita.fr:8000/~cahagn_o/php/info.php I've been using PHP for years now, debugging it a bit (the binary is 2MB large on the NetBSD box) but this performance problem is weird. Thanks for any enlightenment. I hope you won't close this bug report for bad php coding reason, I really think there's a specific performance problem with CGI and IMAP, perhaps the IMAP library that keeps on being reloaded ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7848