This how I would look at it, if it on the same box use socket, and yes it is expected that socket is faster than TCP since (as far as I know) you don't need to deal with the overhead of TCP. Regards, Daniel Fenn On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Yuchen Wang <phobosw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to config some new server > > All of my servers are using TCP Socket(127.0.0.1:9000) between nginx and > php-fpm before > > But, I run ab(ab -n 20000 -c50 http://192.168.74.130:81/) to test the > performance of Unix Socket and TCP Socket, > the result is Unix is little better than TCP > > Usually we run php and web server in the same server, > So, TCP socket and Unix socket > Which method do you prefer ? > > Thank you > > -- > *Yuchen Wang* -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php