Re: ZTS - why are you using it?

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:37 PM >> To: Rasmus Lerdorf >> Cc: PHP internals >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ZTS - why are you using it? >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Those ISPs are probably stuck in old fastcgi-land and haven't figured >> > out FPM's ondemand pooling. If you idle out the ondemand children >> > somewhat quickly you can support a lot of vhosts without using much >> > memory since each one doesn't need to have a running process. Only >> > hosts actually being accessed will have running processes. >> >> Not talking about Linux here, but IIS have something similar, but really > not even >> close to how FPM performs or how it works (having basically the pros of > TS and >> NTS). > > On Windows with impersonation you're actually in a better situation than > you are in Linux. You could hold a small pool of processes and handle as > many different users as you'd like. Works fine with ZTS too btw, IIS takes care about managing the respective application pools. But yes, impersonation is a huge on Windows/IIS, get ride of openbasedir and all that in one go (and again, not NTS specific). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye