change php tmp directory

Herman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:38:05 +0000

Setting to change the tmp dir path for your php programs. Configurable per VirtualHost in Apache2. Useful in combination with open_base option. php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /srv/sites/www.example.com/tmp/ No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Lighttpd performance

Herman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:16:56 +0000

We use Lighttpd a lot these days to offload our Apache2 servers. More specific we use Lighttpd to serve all the static content (images, stylesheets, javascript files and such).

Since one of our customers wanted a clear view I did some performance testing. I used siege with 500 concurrent connections with a list of urls with all the available static files (little over 3000 files).

The results:
Lifting the server siege... done. Transactions: 279582 hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 300.51 secs Data transferred: 2401.35 MB Response time: 0.03 secs Transaction rate: 930.36 trans/sec Throughput: 7.99 MB/sec Concurrency: 27.50 Successful transactions: 279499 Failed transactions: 0 Longest transaction: 3.20 Shortest transaction: 0.00

While sending out with a rate around 80Mbit and receiving around 7Mbit, the old Xeon server didn’t get over a load of 0.20.

I knew lighttpd was good at its job, but this still surprised me positively. I didn’t try to push it any futher but I would expect the server could have saturated a 1Gbit/s link if you look at these results. I bet Apache2 would not be able to come even close.

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