Posted by CptDondo on 10/20/06 19:07

Adam Harvey wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:29:46 -0700, CptDondo wrote:
>> So... Is this a right guess? How long does it take to load php? Is
>> there some way to daemonize PHP so that it doesn't have to load up every
>> time?
>>
>> I am looking for any and all suggestions to speed this beast up....
>
> Admittedly I don't deal with embedded platforms as a rule, but you might
> like to have a look at using lighttpd <http://www.lighttpd.net/> with PHP
> running under FastCGI, which should take out much of the process
> initialisation overhead that you're noticing now.

Woo hoo! That took the generation time from about 6 seconds to just
under a second. Some of the complicated pages still take a couple of
seconds, but that's OK. Whee!

> If you have some spare
> RAM available (doubtful, I know, given the nature of the platform), you
> could also consider using an opcode cache like APC
> <http://pecl.php.net/package/APC> or eAccelerator
> <http://eaccelerator.net/>, which would save the script(s) being parsed on
> each request.

Currently I have 32 MB, but I can add more for the production if it is
warranted.

Thanks!

--Yan

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