[Phpug] Caching / Optimising / Speeding Up Php Scripts / Sites?

[Fergal J Byrne]

Kae Verens wrote:
> Michele Neylon wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> One of those $random and rather general queries ....
>>
>> Does anyone have any secret foo to help speed up sites running php /
>> mysql on apache2.
>> I've already got APC installed but Apache keeps segfaulting :(
>>
>> The server's going to be getting an extra 2 gigs of ram next week (it's
>> sitting on my desk!) but until then I need to keep it running
> 
> optimising is a magic all of its own. you'd really have to say why it's 
> segfaulting.
> 
It doesn't sound like your problem is speed, Michele, there must be
something broken in your app.

As Kae says, it all depends on what's causing your problem.  It's
not that easy to segfault Apache (unless it's running on Win32 ;)
with PHP/MySQL scripts, so you must be doing something unusual, which
you should be able to find and do another way.

I've run 1M-book eCommerce sites on a 256Mb PC using LAMP, and they
never segfaulted Apache once they were in production.  They weren't
exactly blisteringly fast, but they did the job reliably.

Can you tell us what kind of app you are running?

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