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From: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Inadequate hosting for www.postgresql.org
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:26:33 +1100
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Hi Marc,

Ok, I've CC'd the listed maintainer of the FreeBSD PHP port on this so 
that he finds out the --enable-versioning option may be causing some 
performance problems.

Wonder if he's aware of it already at all?

:-/

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Justin Clift wrote:
> 
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> You might have hit it on the mark:
>>
>> Um, now I'm lost.  Recompiling the main PHP binary without 
>> --enable-versioning was the winner?
> 
> 
> Ya ... I think what happens is that when the main php starts up, the 
> first thing it does is goes through its 'extensions' to make sure they 
> are part of the same version ... *why* it would do it each and ever 
> connection, vs just when apache starts up, I don't know ... but, I'm on 
> a dial-up link at home and I can actually load wwwdevel.postgresql.org 
> now, where before I had enough time to go to the kitchen for a drink 
> waiting for it to load ...
> 
> But, I also don't believe it was *just* that option ... the database was 
> slow, due to the need for the vacuum full, which was apparent with the 
> load times on the current site ...
> 
> But, after upgrading and restarting apache on all the VMs, with the 
> change to PHP, even the servers loadavg are all back down to 'normal' ...
> 
> What I suspect is that before the PHP maintainer "split up" teh 
> extensions to seperate ports each, instead of one built binary, he 
> didn't have the versioning enabled ... it was only because of the splits 
> that he added it, so it never affected us before ...
> 
> ----
> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: [email protected]           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

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