Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:32:10 +0100 (CET) From: Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> To: Vladimir Vrzic <random@beotel.yu>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache 2 on FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <20050204103210.69846.qmail@web26806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1107510981.23035.17.camel@localhost>
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> On a FreeBSD 5.3 web server with a very high load, I > recently switched > from Apache 1.3 and PHP 4.3 to using 2.0 with the > prefork MPM and PHP 5. > I noticed a drop in perfomance. What is currently > the best (in terms of > performance) choice for Apache w/ PHP on FreeBSD? > Which MPM should I > use? Does worker MPM use KSE on FreeBSD 5 and does > it perform better > than prefork? What about perchild and threadpool? Or > maybe I should go > back to Apache 1.3? Are there any sysctl or kernel > tunings that I should > use? It is not recommend to use apache 2 with PHP. That's at least what the folks at php says. We use 1.3 and are satisfied with the performance. Have you tried to set the following in /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf? KeepAlive Off MaxClients (size of one process) / (avail. RAM) regards Claus
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