[Info-vax] Apache + mod_php performance

[Dan Cross]

In article <vd1u8j$3qqpg$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 9/25/2024 2:41 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <vd1bdp$3npm3$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 9/25/2024 8:48 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>> Perhaps a simpler question: what sort of throughput does Apache
>>>> on VMS give you if you just hit a simple static resource
>>>> repeatedly?
>>>
>>> Now it becomes interesting.
>>>
>>> nop.php also gives 11 req/sec.
>>>
>>> And nop.txt also gives 11 req/sec.
>>>
>>> So the arrow is definitely pointing towards Apache.
>> 
>> I should think so.  Lesson #1: always verify your base
>> assumptions when investigating something like this.
>> 
>>> So either something to speed up Apache or switching to WASD or OSU.
>> 
>> Well, the question now becomes, "what makes Apache so slow?"
>> 
>> I would concentrate on your nop.txt test; I assume that's a
>> small (possibly empty) text file and as an example has the
>> fewest number of variables.
>> 
>> Do your logs give any indications of what might be going on?
>> For example, do the logs have host names in them, possibly
>> implying your stalling on reverse DNS lookups or something
>> similar?
>
>Just logging IP address.
>
>It must be Apache.
>
>Apache on VMS is prefork MPM. Yuck.
>
>MaxSpareServers 10 -> 50
>MaxClients 150 -> 300
>
>actually did improve performance - double from 11 to 22
>req/sec.
>
>But the system did not like further increases. And besides
>these numbers are absurd high to handle a simulator doing requests
>from just 20 threads.
>
>But not sure what else I can change.

My guess is that communications overhead is slowing things down.
What happens if you set these super low, ideally so there's a
single process handling requests, then see what sort of QPS
numbers you get for your trivial text file.

	- Dan C.