Re: Speed/Performance

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 szii@sziisoft.com wrote: > We're running some speed trials right now, and seeing that .php files > are taking considerably longer even if they have NO <?php ?> tags. > They're static pages, but by having the extension they're running slower > do to the parser running through them. > > Does anyone have any "performance" tips for PHP files? Caches that > aren't turned on by default? > > Here are the ones I know: > Compile into Apache, not as a DSO > Lots O RAM > Don't use "known php extensions" for non-php files. > > We're taking a single-CPU client running a multithreaded app. > It spawns X threads each of which open a socket, requests a > file, and shuts down the socket. > > At 100 threads we're choking the server (K6 233) and not > even touching the client's CPU usage. We're also deep > into VM/swap space, even at 192 MB RAM. This is quite > obviously not our production server (cringe at the thought). > We're just "playing" with this one. > > Any one have more ideas? 2.4 kernel with khttpd? Won't affect > PHP, but could make static pages faster... > > TIA > > -Szii > You should also be looking at making the Apache binary as small as possible: 1) Disable any PHP extensions you don't need. 2) Disable any Apache DSOs you don't need (mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_speling[sic], mod_perl, etc.). The RAM drive is also a good idea, you beat me to it :). Most server-caliber operating systems already have file-based caching, so the require()/include() stuff is dealt with. It uses a lot more than 10MB sometimes, though. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>