Re: huge performance diff between windows and linux.

[Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes Jorge sounds right to me.

The Apache PHP module is compiled to work as part of the 
Apache web server, whereas PHP running on IIS is external, 
hence can only be used as a CGI script.

Microsoft don't give us the source code to IIS to allow PHP 
to be compiled as an IIS server module like Apache does.

Have you tried to use the Windows version of Apache and see 
if PHP compiled into that version works quicker?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts


On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Jorge Hernandez wrote:

> To: Paul Roland <paul.roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Jorge Hernandez <jfha73@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  huge performance diff between windows and linux.
>
> I might be wrong, but if you are using nts it means you are using IIS, try
> ts with apache and compare results.
>
> In my personal experience, PHP runs slower on IIS because it uses it as CGI.
>
> Let us know how it goes.
>
> Jorge_.
> On Sep 7, 2013 12:15 PM, "Paul Roland" <paul.roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hey I have an issue and I ran out of ideas.
> > I have two virtual servers, one running debian with compiled php and one
> > running server 2008 with php non thread safe version.
> > Both have 5.5.3 version installed and both have almoust the same config and
> > modules, with opcache enabled.
> >
> > However I ran the benchmark script found online and I get this values:
> >
> > Linux:
> >
> > PHP version : 5.5.3
> > Platform : Linux
> > --------------------------------------
> > test_math                 : 1.677 sec.
> > test_stringmanipulation   : 1.625 sec.
> > test_loops                : 0.910 sec.
> > test_ifelse               : 0.757 sec.
> > --------------------------------------
> > Total time:               : 4.969 sec.
> >
> > Windows:
> >
> > PHP version : 5.5.3
> > Platform : WINNT
> > --------------------------------------
> > test_math                 : 2.516 sec.
> > test_stringmanipulation   : 5.297 sec.
> > test_loops                : 1.516 sec.
> > test_ifelse               : 0.781 sec.
> > --------------------------------------
> > Total time:               : 10.11 sec.
> >
> >
> > The question is am I missing something? can somebody with more experience
> > advise me what to setup on php or iis to improve this?
> > Not to mention that the windows server has double amount of ram and cpu.
> >
> > I know I know I should blame Microsoft but even so I doubt THEY can do
> > anything
> > in this setup. So I doing my best on my own, I would love to have Linux on
> > that
> > box but it's not up to me.

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