Re: Wacky Performance Problem

Are you using the ISAPI module? Zeev On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Joel Roller wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I've put a couple messages together here and moved to php-windows... > > Zeev wrote: > How did you perform the benchmarks? I've never performed benchmarks on > large HTML files under Windows, but I must say your results are very > surprising. I can't think of any reason why PHP code blocks should > execute quicker than flat HTML blocks (quite on the contrary). > > Joel says - > I must say, I'm completely suprised myself. I'd really appreciate some > confirmation of my numbers, though, for all I know, I'm doing something > wrong. > > I did the benchmarks with the apache bench utility on my linux box. > Here's the straight result matrix for 100k of output. > > First, php3, just for comparison on the same machine: > > Print 100,000 of 'x' (<? 1000 * print 'xxx...xxx'; ?>) > Connnection Times (ms) > min avg max > Connect: 2 17 33 > Processing: 763 775 796 > Total: 765 792 829 > > 100,000 of 'x' (1000 * xxxx...xxxx) > Connnection Times (ms) > min avg max > Connect: 5 13 18 > Processing: 741 776 828 > Total: 746 789 846 > > Note: This is not completely accurate, as my network is slightly > overloaded at the moment. php3 hits the maximum speed of my network > currently. If only php4 was so nice: > > Print 100,000 of 'x' (<? 1000 * print 'xxx...xxx'; ?>) > Connnection Times (ms) > min avg max > Connect: 6 23 41 > Processing: 5404 5474 5544 > Total: 5410 5497 5585 > > 100,000 of 'x' (1000 * xxxx...xxxx) > Connnection Times (ms) > min avg max > Connect: 13 23 34 > Processing: 16904 16910 16915 > Total: 16917 16933 16949 > > Yes... That's almost 17 seconds per page load. > > > Andi wrote: > It sounds strange but I'll try and check it out. Do you by any chance > have > the PHP 4 source setup on your machine so that you can compile it? We > could > try and change a few settings. > > Joel says - > Ack, I don't. I have a machine nearby with cygwin on it, but that's > the only windows compiler I have available at the moment. I will plan > on getting MS Visual whatever installed on a machine, if I can find it > laying around somewhere... but for the moment I'm stuck using binaries > that people give me. If it'll help get this thing goin' faster, I'll go > buy/steal a copy sooner rather than later. > > -joel > -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/