High Disk Usage and Busy Servers from Apache

[falko]

Have you tried to optimize Apache?

http://www.howtoforge.com/configurin...um_performance

Do you use a PHP opcode cacher (eAccelerator, Xcache, APC)? This will help decrease the load.

[lewis_saint]

Originally Posted by falko

Have you tried to optimize Apache?

http://www.howtoforge.com/configurin...um_performance

Do you use a PHP opcode cacher (eAccelerator, Xcache, APC)? This will help decrease the load.

Without FastCGI, my system appears to run fine now. There are 60 or so less processes and RAM usage has halved...

[Ovidiu]

@lewis_saint: did you stick with mod_PHP for now?

I have a similar problem, see my thread: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51081

basically I changed one variable to close php-cgi processes that weren't used faster:
IdleTimeout 300 (original value was 3600)

and now I have the problem that my disk IO is quite high....
so far it looks like in my case its mysql that is causing high HD latency and IO

[lewis_saint]

I've had no problems with mod_php. Far less memory usage.

[Ovidiu]

I know all that, but with mod_php one site owner can/could access the other one's stuff...
so I need to run with fastCGI, just wanted to see where you were headed since we had similar probs...
good luck