Re: Compiling PHP4

Yes, that's true, but executable has to be loaded into memory to run. On top of that, apache runs multiple instances, so if you have 1.6 megs executable, you have a good portion of that loaded up in each thread, you have about 10 thread in idle time, and lets say 100 threads in a very busy time. So 200 x 1 meg = 200 megs, now it becomes a little more obvious why you would want to keep your size to a minimum. I don't know if 200 people all at once will ever come all at once, but still. Apache (just clean, with default modules) is around 500K Apache + PHP + JServ = 1.7 megs Apache + PHP + JServ + Apache_SSL = 2.5 megs Well, at least those are the numbers I got. If anyone managed to get smaller executables, drop me a line. Thanks a lot for your help. I will try the switches and see how it goes. Victor Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > But executable size is irrelevant. What is relevant is runtime memory > usage. I can create a 100 byte executable that eats up 100 megs of memory > at runtime. Or I can create a 10 Meg executable that only consumes 10 > bytes of memory at runtime.