[ZendTo] Speeding up Apache

[John Thurston]

On 6/23/2020 8:48 AM, Jules via ZendTo wrote:
> I've been working on some instructions to speed up Apache (and hopefully 
> reduce its memory usage) by switching from the "prefork" model to the 
> "worker" model, and using php-fpm instead of mod_php.

I hope this will be an option, rather than a straight-up change. It is 
my experience, albeit several years old, that gains from switching 
Apache to the threaded-handler ("worker") were strongly 
architecture-dependent.

Our SPARC servers with +100 thread-handlers were screaming-fast with the 
threaded-handler. Our quad-core Intel servers performed no better with 
the "worker" than with the "prefork" handler. I have no idea how VMware 
(or other virtual server platforms) will affect this calculus.



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