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ID: 53310 Comment by: f...@php.net Reported by: stefan at whocares dot de Summary: fpm_atomic.h uses SPARC v9 only code, doesn't work on v8 Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: FPM related Operating System: Linux (Debian for Sparc) PHP Version: 5.3.3 Assigned To: fat Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: one simple test is to make php core the less as possible. You can create a file test.php wich does nothing but an "echo". Then you stress this page with FPM with ab (ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://ip:port/test.php While the test is running you check the status page and see how it's goin' on. it should be a good primary test. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-17 02:19:15] stefan at whocares dot de First of all: thanks for not taking my rant badly :) Of course I can run this code and, well "test" it. I would have been happier however if someone besides me had looked over the code and said "yes, that looks like it could work" ;) Right now it *is* running on two ReadyNAS (Sparc) boxes as well as on my SunFire 280R. It doesn't segfault which to me is a good sign and it's producing normale output from the small test scripts I have run. Haven't done extensive testing so far but will try running Wordpress and Drupal in the next couple of days. If there's any special test you'd like to see me run against the patched version of PHP, let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-17 01:18:49] f...@php.net @stefan at whocares dot de Did you run your patch on a ReadyNAS box ? If you test it and tell us it works, there is not reason not to integrate it. As far as I know, it's not been tested but for compilation only. We don't want to leave someone behind, but as pierre told you there is priorities. We'll be glad if you help us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-17 01:16:15] paj...@php.net and I was wiling to write arch, not OS.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-17 01:15:26] paj...@php.net It was not badly meant, only trying to show you alternative. I can't know nor judge the reason why you need v8 support, but have been there many times in the past for my numerous projects. We have to make decisions about which platforms we can support, and also which we stop to support. There is nothing personal or aggressive in our replies, only trying to explain the status and the reasoning behind it. Sorry if you took it so badly, that's not the aim of our comments, or mines in particular. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-17 01:09:51] stefan at whocares dot de @paj...@php.net Did it ever occur to you that I found this bug/problem because I *specifically wanted to use FPM* in the first place? Had I wanted to use FastCGI I'd have certainly done so. Seeing that there already was a solution for Sparc v9 I thought there might be interest in a solution that would allow PHP to run on older machines. Hardware that maybe you're laughing about. But hardware that's still in fairly wide use. And, come to think of it, hardware that may also be the only hardware people in poorer countries than the one you're obviously living in are able to get their hands on. So I first asked and then got my hands dirty and even provided a possible solution - and one that could be easily implemented, too. And what for? Only to get ignorance and witty remarks in return. Well, I almost forgot that the PHP project has such a bad reputation when it comes to bugs and patches. Thanks for reminding me why. Now you can safely go back to your ivory tower and think about supporting next decade's hardware only. For my part, I promise to keep any bugs/problems in PHP I may find in the future to myself and will do the same for any patches I may come up with. Btw: the boxes I'm talking about are running Linux (which you could have seen by looking at the "OS:" tag) and I really have no idea why you'd call that a "soon to be dead OS". If you have a problem understanding the difference between a CPU and an OS, may I ask what exactly makes you think you can give some valuable input here? As for the "cruelly needed developers" you mention: I don't see why you should need those as long as the community comes up with patches you could use. Ok, if you keep driving away people like this, I start to have an idea as to why ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53310 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53310&edit=1