On 30 November 2013 08:53, Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:08:58 PM Tim Connors wrote:
I wonder about worker vs prefork? linux processes are lightweight, so I don't imagine threading is going to be much better. We only fork one process per second typically, and I don't think there'll be many differences in context switch overhead between the two. Worker apparently "sucks for php", but I don't know whether that's for mod_php or cgi or whatever.
Well I switched from prefork to worker on my personal Debian VM so that it could cope with lots of PHP, I kept running out of RAM otherwise.
Worked really well and my problems went away.
Now of course it's not loaded anything like the BoM servers, but this is the first I've heard that it "sucks for php".
It's even in the PHP manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php#faq.installation.apache2