Re: PHP slowness

* Gerard <Fahr@lycantrope.com>: > Update on the issue: > I just upgraded to PHP5 in an attempt to get the speed under control, it > didn't work. > What I did notice is that even www.debuginc.com/test2.php (which has NO code > in it at ALL, only text) takes 5 seconds to load! Upon closer investigation, > it seems that with both PHP4 and PHP5, any page that ends on .php takes 5 > seconds doing NOTHING before it starts to process and actually load... > What could delay any given .php page for 5 seconds on both PHP4 and PHP5? It > doesn't seem to make any sense. I already removed unused CGI modules from > the Apache load process, but still a 5 second delay. > > Another interesting note; if you click from page to page fast enough, it > doesn't take as long to load. For some reason, after the initial 5 second > startup hic, it loads consequent pages smoothly. If you wait for 10 seconds > and then click a link, it loads for 5 seconds again. I don't think it's likely a PHP issue -- my guess is that it's a server issue, and possibly an Apache issue. Have you looked in your Apache logs? What happens if you try one of the pages from the command line -- e.g., 'php page.php' -- is this also slow? Apache should load PHP into memory on start, which means that any page request doesn't have to wait for the PHP engine to load -- it's already on. That is, if you have PHP compiled in as a dynamic shared object. Did you compile it as a DSO, or static CGI? If the latter, that could possible cause the issue, as Apache has to invoke the PHP interpreter on every request. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | WEBSITES: Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association | http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org mailto:matthew@garden.org | http://vermontbotanical.org