Create profiling information for your application with pear's Timer class or something similar. regards, Bostjan On Saturday 26 February 2005 11:50, Gerard wrote: > > Hi there, just for testings sake, you should get a script that figures > > out the page generation time for a php script... As luck would have it, > > I made a class for this not too long ago. give this a whirl. > > > > First, create a php script with this in it... > > <--snip--> > > > It will color code it for you and everything, give it a whirl and let us > > know what it tells you. > > Good one. A simple index gives me this: > 0.001297 seconds > > Which is normal. All it does is request a counter from the DB and add 1 to > it. However, the page STILL takes 5 seconds to load. Or rather; for 5 > seconds it does NOTHING and then it suddenly loads. > This is not the case with .htm and .html files, they load at once... > Somewhere there must be something which slows the execution of .php files > for (exactly) 5 seconds. > > I just don't know what to think of this anymore :S > > - Gerard > > > Gerard wrote: > > >Hello people, > > > > > >Recently, one of my webservers became rather slow. At first we thought > > > it was the MySQL backend, but when logged in on MySQL using the command > > > line tool over SSH, it runs as smooth as ever. > > >Static content (normal html pages) also load without delay. It seems > > > that the bottleneck is PHP itself. > > >For the sake of comparison, I created 2 test pages: > > > > > >http://www.debuginc.com/test.html > > >http://www.debuginc.com/test.php > > > > > >Everyone I asked says that the PHP page takes over 5 seconds to > > > > load while > > > > >the HTML one instantly displays. The only code in the PHP page is <? > > > echo 'hello world'; ?>. No MySQL stuff, so that eliminates the initial > > > idea of MySQL causing the slowness. > > > > > >Nevertheless, it IS slow and I have no idea why or where to > > > > start looking. > > > > >The phpinfo() can be found on www.debuginc.com/info.php. Any > > > > help or hints > > > > >are highly appreciated. > > > > > >Another interesting note; this problem started a couple of days > > > > ago without > > > > >any changes in the config or anything. At first I upped the amount of > > >connections Apache would accept, but it soon turned out that was not the > > >problem. > > > > > >Thanks, > > >- Gerard -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php