Re: [PHP] apache2 php stability

2004-11-29 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:55:31 -0600, Anthony Gauda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read at various places on the web that Apache 2 and PHP running as a module isn't recommended for production sites. Does anyone here run PHP 4/5 and Apache2 in a high load production environment with success? If

Re: [PHP] apache2 php stability

2004-11-29 Thread Anthony Gauda
Apache2 is multithreaded and works better under higher loads with a smaller memory footprint. If you have 300 simul connections under apache 1.3 you need 300 forks. The same load under apache 2 runs under 300 threads. With Linux 2.6 threads are very lightweight and in terms of system resources

Re: [PHP] apache2 php stability

2004-11-29 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:22 -0600, Anthony Gauda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same load under apache 2 runs under 300 threads. With Linux 2.6 threads are very lightweight and in terms of Are distros shipping with NPTL already? I saw a Gentoo thread on how to convert a system to use NPTL but

Re: [PHP] apache2 php stability

2004-11-29 Thread Anthony Gauda
actually any distro with a 2.6 kernel should already have it. You can check by doing a getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION if it says NPTL .xx you have it... Greg Donald wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:22 -0600, Anthony Gauda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same load under apache 2 runs under 300