Re: nginx+php-fpm question

On 9/15/10 10:57 AM, J Ravi Menon wrote: > So my guess is, if we do php-fpm approach, we have to do all these > cleanups manually? Or are there simpler solutions or hook-ups that > does it automatically at the end of the request cycle? No, fastcgi doesn't change this model at all. You have the same end-of-requests cleanups as with mod_php. > 2) My other concern is the extra ipc overhead between > nginx<---->php-fpm servers even on unix sockets. To me in theory > apache+mod_php ( + apc with stat off) should be as efficient as you > can get. Granted nginx might be more efficient in its socket mgmt > (non-blocking event-driven i/o), but can it really outperform the > apache approach given the issues in (1) are resolved? In theory that extra ipc should make the nginx case slower, true. From what I have been able to measure, that is rarely a factor though. You can take a look at this slide from a recent talk of mine: http://talks.php.net/show/drupalconcph/11 That's testing a vanilla Drupal setup on Apache, PHP-FPM-nginx and PHP-FPM-lighttpd. The dashed lines show the latency, the solid lines the requests/sec. -Rasmus