Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 08/14/05 20:43

* Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> :
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> Am 2005-08-14 00:48:23, schrieb Sebastian:
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> > i spent hundreds of hours building my site on php4,
> > im not about to rewrite any of it to make it 'compatible' with php5.
>
> You are not alone...
>
> > maybe my impressions of php5 are wrong, but last i heard apps built on=20
> > php4 may or may not work right under php5
> > - meaning you would have to rewrite code. am i wrong?
>
> Right, I have a Dual-Athlon MP1900 with 4 GByte of memory running
> Apache 1.3, php4, ssh und courier.
>
> This Server support curently around 4860 VHosts.
>
> Now, since the System Disk was gone, I I have installed Debian=20
> 3.1/Sarge with apache2, php5 and latest build of courier.
>
> Now ich more then 50 Clients connect to the website using php
> appications are kicked out of the memory. :-/
>
> It seems that php5 consums much more resources then php4. Swichting
> back to the latest Debian 3.0/Woody Backup and all is working fine

Actually, this is likely an issue with running Apache2 with *any*
version of PHP. Try switching to Apache1 again with PHP5, and see if you
get similar results. You shouldn't.

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Zend Certified Engineer
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/

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