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Re: Including PHP scripts on same server [message #171916 is a reply to message #171915] Fri, 21 January 2011 03:08 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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jwcarlton wrote:
>>> Isn't that part of what Gzip compression does automatically? Buffers
>>> out tabs, newlines, etc?
>> No, it does not. And BTW, it also takes up cpu cycles - which you seem
>> to be so overly concerned about.
>
> The CPU is rarely under strain, actually. I have a Quad Intel Xeon CPU
> 3.20GHz, and rarely have a load that's high enough to be noticed. My
> bottleneck seems to be RAM; I just upgraded to 4GB, and will need to
> upgrade to 8GB within the next few weeks.
>

That really tells the whole story; since clients are bandwidth limited,
you end up with a lot of processes..whether or not the data comes from
separate files or not is scaarcely an issue.

One way to reduce RAM usage is to create a custom shareable library in
C, and put PHP wrappers on it.

Biggish job.


> I'm also regularly tweaking the server, due to the number of
> processes. My average this week has been over 500 processes, with a
> peak of over 1100. I've never professed to know a lot about the server
> backend, and I was concerned that having 5 includes would turn in to 5
> processes per page load.
>

No. It wont. One process. Probably all of those files are in bug=fered
RAM anyway so prvided you have enough..


>
>> If you're performance is that critical, you need to be looking at
>> hardware solutions - multiple servers, for instance.
>>
>> And as Paul said - you should be using C instead of an interpreted language.
>
> A second server is on my list, but that's a big expense so I'm trying
> to push it off as long as I can with code and server config tweaks.
>

Better to get 64GB of RAM on ONE server. If CPU is not stressed and the
gigabit Ethernet is not stressed.


> When I rebuild next year, maybe I'll make a focus on working in C. It
> doesn't seem to be too different from Perl, anyway, and I coded in
> Perl for years before ever touching PHP.

Its not hard to take procedural PHP and turn it into C..if you have a
PHP library of stuff start with that and wrap it in a custom PHP library.
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