Re: Apache + mod_php performance

On 9/26/24 7:38 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:

 On 9/25/24 6:14 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 9/25/2024 5:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

It must be Apache.
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Apache on VMS is prefork MPM. Yuck.
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MaxSpareServers 10 -> 50
MaxClients 150 -> 300
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actually did improve performance - double from 11 to 22
req/sec.
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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.
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But not sure what else I can change.

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Does anyone know internals of Apache on VMS?
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Based on some messages in error_log it looks like
it uses mailboxes APACHE$AWS_CONTROL_MBX_nn.
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If every request result in mailbox comm between
master process and a child process, then that could
slow down things.

 I vaguely remember that there was a separate image installed with
privileges that increased socket buffer size from 255 bytes to something
reasonable and these sockets were used as pipes for IPC.
 The following links still seem to work if you want (old) sources:
 https://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/apache/CSWS-V20-2-ALPHA-SRC-KIT.BCK_SFX_AXPEXE
 https://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/apache/CSWS-V20-2-I64-SRC-KIT.BCK_SFX_I64EXE
 

Trial and error shows that *slightly* later versions are available at
the same place:
https://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/apache/CSWS-V21-1-ALPHA-SRC-KIT.BCK_SFX_AXPEXE
https://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/apache/CSWS-V21-1-I64-SRC-KIT.BCK_SFX_I64EXE
Dunno why VSI doesn't release source code for their v2.4 port.