PHP and Performance

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Presenter(s):	Ilia Alshanetsky
Where:	PHP Tek 2007 (description)
When:	April 26, 2007
Topics:	PHP, Web, Performance, LAMP, XDebug
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Contents 1 Description 2 Tools mentioned 2.1 Opcode cache 2.2 Lightweight HTTP servers for static content serving 2.3 Content compression 2.4 Profiling & Benchmarking 2.4.1 Testing web servers 2.4.2 Profiling PHP code 2.5 Session Storage Alternatives

[edit] Description

Presentation about optimizing performance of LAMP stack with primary attention to PHP.

[edit] Tools mentioned

[edit] Opcode cache

• APC
• PHP Accelerator
• eAccelerator
• Zend Platform

[edit] Lightweight HTTP servers for static content serving

• lighttpd
• Boa
• Tux
• thttpd

[edit] Content compression

• mod_gzip / mod_deflate (Apache 1x)
• mod_deflate (Apache 2x)
• PHP: zlib.output_compression=1 / ob_start(“ob_gzhandler”)

[edit] Profiling & Benchmarking

[edit] Testing web servers

• ab (Apache benchmark)
• Siege
• http_load

[edit] Profiling PHP code

• APD (Pure profiler)
• XDebug (Profiler & Debugger)
• DBG (Profiler & Debugger)

[edit] Session Storage Alternatives

• mm
• APC
• memcached