Performance Impact of loadable PHP-modules in Apache
November 17th, 2007
What impact do modules have on a high-performance webserver? A LOT! (though that would not be a suprise)
I’ve been playing with a new webserver for a week now. It’s a brand new Dell PowerEdge 980, with Xeon Quadcore (2.4ghz), SAS-raid1-sata (7200rpm) and 4 GB of ECC-ram. Should be enough for a relatively large website with high concurrency.. The application I write do not cause a lot of Mysql-queries, I try to cache as much as possible, the real performance-gain for me is getting PHP5 to run faster. So I installed the machine and got to work on some stress-tests.
