Darvin,Using worker over prefork will allow you to serve more clients, for one. The immediate gain will be a lesser memory footprint. Performance gains or losses will largely depends on the scripts you run on your server.
As for the second question, that's more of a question for the php mailing lists.
Frank Darvin Denmian wrote:
will i have any improvement of my performance using : mpm worker + fastcgi + php5-cgi ? and how do I know if an extension is thread-safe? Thanks. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Frank Gingras <francois.gingras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yes, that is a common configuration. But not mod_php. Frank Darvin Denmian wrote:Is possible to use apache with mpm worker + fastcgi + php5-cgi ? Thanks. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Frank Gingras <francois.gingras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Darvin, Some of the php extensions are not thread-safe, so running in this configuration might leads to segfaults. In short, no, don't do it. Frank Darvin Denmian wrote:Hello, i have a Web Server with the follow configuration: 4 Generic \ 512 MB \ DDR2 667 FB DIMM 4 Generic \ 1024 MB \ DDR2 667 FB DIMM 2 Maxtor \ 146GB:SAS:10K RPM \ Atlas 10K - SAS 2 Intel \ 2.0 GHz 1333FSB - Woodcrest \ Xeon 5130 (Dual Core) 1 Dell \ 9G Drive Controller - SAS/SATA RAID \ PERC 5/i 1 Dell \ 1066/1333FSB Dual Xeon \ PowerEdge 1950/2950 Redhat Enterprise Linux - x86_64 - OS ES 5.0 I need to know if advisable or possible to use Apache with MPM Worker and PHP-5.2.9 . Has anyone already tested/used this? Any aditional information is welcome. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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