Here is an efficient *FREE* php accelerator that may help improve performance. http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/ I think it's also alot easier to set up than Turck mmCache, with similar performance improvements. Keith In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice they are not. On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Eugene wrote: > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Eugene > <list-apache@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] high > load average on Apache 1.3 hosting 8000 conc. > users forum > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 05:07:53PM CST, devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > : > : Well the issue is that at peak times, the server doesn't > : respond, typing in SSH becomes sometimes slow, memory > : usage is fairly used (4GB of rams). The machine is a > : dual xeon 3.0 / SCSI hard disks. What do you mean by > : "disks maxed out" ? > > Does your machine hit swap? > > : Mainly VBulletin is a php script. I don't serve much > : static html files. How can php be tuned to optimize its > : performance? > > Get a PHP enhancer, e.g. Turck mmCache. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx