Hi Ralf (et al),

Please take SVN r7726 for a spin, and let us know if it improves things
for you or if there are any problems. Thanks! :)

Best regards,
Darby

Darby Felton wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> First, I advise that ZF 1.5.0PR probably should not be used in
> production, mission-critical applications, since it is a "preview
> release" or unstable distribution, including components from the
> incubator in various stages of completion. Of course, the 1.5.0RC1
> should be more stable, and the 1.5.0GA release should be quite solid.
> 
> As to your performance problems, I suspect that you could be having
> trouble with Zend_Loader. Please see the following JIRA issue if you
> also suspect the same could be true:
> 
> http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2463
> 
> In short, Zend_Loader had been using the "@" error suppression operator
> for its include[_once] directives. This caused any errors that occur by
> including a file to be suppressed. This is particularly bad for
> developers experiencing fatal errors, but it also poses problems for
> people who want to be aware of such errors, yet they had been suppressed
> by Zend_Loader. So, to solve the problem I removed the error suppression
> operators, and wrapped error trapping code around the include[_once]
> directives. This unconditional error handling no doubt contributes to
> some degradation in performance, but I do not have concrete data to say
> how much degradation one should expect. Since 1.0.3 apparently had no
> error suppression, the solution for ZF-2463 may be improved, and I
> intend to do so prior to the ZF 1.5.0 RC1 release. With any luck I
> should be able to do this today.
> 
> Finally, I would recommend that Zend_Loader be eschewed, in favor of
> using require_once, whenever possible. If there are any framework
> components using Zend_Loader, where require_once would work nicely
> instead, please let us know about it.
> 
> Thanks for the report!
> 
> Best regards,
> Darby
> 
> Ralf Eggert wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> two days ago I upgraded our live server with ZF 1.5.0PR which caused a
>> serious performance issue. The whole site slowed down immediately.
>>
>> First I did not know what the real problem was because at nearly the
>> same time a content grabber started to run his bots to grab our content.
>> But after blocking his ips the performance was still bad compared to the
>> time before upgrading to ZF 1.5.0PR.
>>
>> So today I switched back to ZF 1.0.3 and the performance was up again.
>> With ZF 1.0.3 the load average is almost all the time lower than 1. With
>> ZF 1.5.0PR is was almost all the time between 4 and 6. I was not able to
>> identify the bottleneck because my first priority was to get the site
>> back to normal.
>>
>> Hay anybody else upgrade an live server with 1.5.0PR and encountered
>> similar problems? Has anybody any idea what could have caused these
>> problems?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
> 

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