What's this "pre-fork MPM"? On Nov 20, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> William, > > As Armin wrote, it seems that using PHP as an Apache DSO with the pre-fork > MPM would be the way to go. I don't remember seeing reports of issues with > that combination in quite a while (I mean several years, so much that we had > forgotten about those issues from the old days). > > Daniel > > > On 12-11-20 1:37 PM, Armin Burger wrote: >> William >> >> I cannot say anything for Mac OS in this respect. But at least for Linux >> running Apache in the classical pre-fork MPM I did not experience >> problems with PHP-MapScript running as an Apache DSO. Also some stress >> tests with benchmarking using multiple WMS requests with on MapScript >> OWS as server backend did not cause problems. >> >> I sometimes noticed some irregular, strange, and difficult to reproduce >> problems with MS 6.0 and PHP Mapscript (Apache or CGI segfaults), but >> that was independent of PHP with Apache DSO or as CGI, and this never >> ever happened with MS 5.x. >> >> armin >> >> >> >> On 15/11/2012 04:52, William Kyngesburye wrote: >>> It's my understanding that when running PHP-Mapscript with PHP as an >>> Apache DSO, under heavy loads it can randomly hiccup/trip/crash or >>> otherwise not perform correctly. So I've been maintaining an OS X >>> PHP-CGI package to go along with my MapServer package. >>> >>> Is this still a problem? Maybe I missed a fix for this? Or is it >>> being worked on (or not being worked on)? Or is it an unsolvable >>> problem (maybe due to the nature of a DSO)? >>> >>> I'm thinking about simplifying my OS X GIS/carto stack and dropping my >>> PHP-CGI package in favor of the OS X system PHP-DSO (a bit old) or >>> some other better-maintained PHP package for OS X (which will likely >>> be a DSO). >>> ----- William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ "We are at war with them. Neither in hatred nor revenge and with no particular pleasure I shall kill every ___ I can until the war is over. That is my duty." "Don't you even hate 'em?" "What good would it do if I did? If all the many millions of people of the allied nations devoted an entire year exclusively to hating the ____ it wouldn't kill one ___ nor shorten the war one day." <Ha, ha> "And it might give 'em all stomach ulcers." - Tarzan, on war _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
