Posted by Chung Leong on 09/07/06 16:16

Skrol29 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In order to encircle a problem of performance we have with our PHP
> scripts, we were brought the make the following test. We take a
> standard HTML page of our site, and we make a copy of this file but
> renaming it with the PHP extension. This way, those two HTML and PHP
> files have exactly the same content which is entirely HTML without any
> PHP tags, neither PHP commands.
>
> The we benched the time for displaying those pages (using FireFox):
> Source HTML + extension HTML + called from Locale Machine => 0,5 sec
> Source HTML + extension PHP + called from Locale Machine => 0,5 sec
> Source HTML + extension HTML + called from Local Network => 0,5 sec
> Source HTML + extension PHP + called from Local Network => 4 sec (!!)
>
> All Calls are made with the same URL in http://....
> This behavior is the same on several client PC we've tested in our
> Local Network.
>
> The server is Win2000 + Pentium III-800 + 256 Mb Ram. Apache 2.0.55 +
> PHP 5.1.6 are manually installed and running, the server has no other
> specific software. There is no anti-virus, no fire-wall.
>
> Do you have an idea of what can cause pages passed by the PHP
> interpreter to be dramatically slowed down only when they are called
> via the locale network ?
>
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> Skrol 29
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What if the page is blank?

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