On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:12:57 +0100
"Michael Vaughn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am contacting -performance, -questions, and -hackers in the hope someone
> helps me troubleshoot a problem with FreeBSD 6.2 and apache 2.2.4
[ responding in questions - removed unnecessary lists]
can you please make your php.ini, httpd.conf , enabled extras/* and Include/*
available please?
what's the output of httpd -V and httpd -l
Do you use anything outside of the normal? Any networked file system ?
[...]
> The problem:
>
> Right after starting apache, the loads on the server will climb to 10-40's
> and the application will become unacceptably slow. This will go on until few
> users are using the said application. (note: other servers running older
> FreeBSD versions on dual cpus running the same code don't exhibit this
> system% problem) top shows more than 60% of the CPU time is spent on system:
I would first try to determine if the problem is with your application OR
apache+OS+configuration combo you have here.
- get rid of your application altogether - does apache behave the same way
(without clients hitting it)? If yes, dont worry about your app at all for now
- apache shouldn't load your system like this.
- If load with no-own-app-and-no-clients is ok, use ab to generate some load on
the server , on plain html pages. what happens then?
- I am not sure what would the best way to test PHP load...but there may be out
there some test framework / standard php applications that can be used as a
point of reference...
- you can run
ktrace httpd -X
and start using your app, and see if you get anything interesting in the output
> I had to lower MaxClients on apache substancially from 128 to 32, or loads
> would quickly go to 40+. (Other servers with dual cpus instead of quad and
> apache 1.3 on freebsd 6.0 don't have this problem)
something is fishy here , I've had (have? ) Apache boxen (i386 though )
with several hundred children allowed (well, big enough that i had to change
the build defaults ), and it works fine. (i am not comparing apps, of course,
but the server behaviour is what is interesting)
HIH,
B
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