Re: PHP performance

* Thus wrote Ed Lazor: > Any recommendations on how to make PHP run faster? To help figure out which queries are running slow there is the php.ini setting: mysql.trace_mode=On Using this will have the php library analyze your queries and if any of them do table scans php will issue a warning about it, which can be very helpful finding out where you need indexes. > > > > I have a script pulling a lot of data from MySQL and generating reports and > spitting out data (flush) as it's processing so I can see what's going on. > It was taking around 10 seconds to process each order. I reduced the total > number of orders being processed. I expected the script to take less time > because there were fewer orders to process, but I was surprised to discover > that time spent processing each order also reduced almost in half. I > figured PHP's memory limit per script at 8mb might be the bottleneck, so I > upped it to 128, restarted apache, and reran the script. Increasing > available memory had no effect. > Its hard to say blindly where the bottle-neck is though. Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid!