From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 14:52:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6395216A4B3; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FFF44029; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@migus.org) Received: from garple.migus.org ([68.55.83.94]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003092821520801500fg7vbe>; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:52:08 +0000 Received: by garple.migus.org (Postfix, from userid 80) id 3E6B88FC30; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:52:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 192.168.4.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user adam) by mail.migus.org with HTTP; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:52:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49486.192.168.4.2.1064785928.squirrel@mail.migus.org> In-Reply-To: <3F7753BA.1020304@sitetronics.com> References: <3F761AF0.3020105@migus.org> <3F774EBF.4050605@sitetronics.com> <49448.192.168.4.2.1064784375.squirrel@mail.migus.org> <3F7753BA.1020304@sitetronics.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:52:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adam C. Migus" To: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: John Straiton cc: Robert Watson cc: "Adam C. Migus" cc: 'Eric Anderson' cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:52:10 -0000 Devon H. O'Dell said: > Adam C. Migus wrote: > >>Devon, >>I am using PHP with Apache 2 and didn't mean to say or imply that >> it >>didn't work with Apache 2, however, the last time I tried I was >>unable to run it with an Apache 2 server running any MPM other than >>pre-fork. Have you been able to run PHP with a threaded MPM? >>Please let me know as I'd like to test the other MPM's with PHP... >> >>For reference my Apache 2 and PHP are from ports, the latter is >>mod_php4 compiled with just about everything. :-) >> >> > Well that might be the problem in your case. PHP itself is thread > safe, > but there's no guarantee that the extensions are. In fact, I think a > good few of them are not (ming comes to mind, IIRC). In your case, > the > killer may be the extensions and not PHP itself. I'd suggest > compiling > them as modules and then dl()ing them until PHP dies ;). There's > probably also a list of non-thread-safe modules out there somewhere. > But > I fear the list Gods, so I'm not going to change this list to > freebsd-php :) If you've got more questions, feel free to email me > privately :) > > --Devon > > Devon, Agreed and thanks. Come to think of it, I think it was a cranky extension that I wanted/needed. The best thing for me to do is as per your suggestion, try it again, isolate the problematic extension and go from there. Thanks for your offer to answer my questions, I might be spamming your inbox soon! :-) -- Adam - (http://people.migus.org/~amigus/) Migus Dot Org - (http://www.migus.org/)