Re: Inadequate hosting for www.postgresql.org

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 ...
>
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