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Materix



Joined: 30 Aug 2012
Posts: 37

PostPosted: Tue 23 Mar '21 21:53    Post subject: Memory vs CPU Reply with quote

I have an Apache 2.4 with PHP on a Windows 2016-server, and there is a lot of traffic.

Therefore the CPU runs close to 100%, while only 4GB of 12GB is being used.

How can I move more of the load from the CPU over to the memory?
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7288
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Tue 23 Mar '21 23:46    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well the CPU is doing the work. More RAM can't compensate that.

Do you use PHP as module or over fcgid?
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Materix



Joined: 30 Aug 2012
Posts: 37

PostPosted: Tue 23 Mar '21 23:47    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the reply.

It runs as fcgid.
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7288
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Tue 23 Mar '21 23:52    Post subject: Reply with quote

Then you can only have a second server and a load balancer OR more CPU cores.


Code:

Apache Load Balancer <--------> Apache 1 with fcgid PHP
                     ^
                     |
                     ---------> Apache 2 with fcgid PHP
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Materix



Joined: 30 Aug 2012
Posts: 37

PostPosted: Wed 24 Mar '21 0:22    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks!

I will look into that.
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Jan-E



Joined: 09 Mar 2012
Posts: 1248
Location: Amsterdam, NL, EU

PostPosted: Thu 25 Mar '21 15:35    Post subject: Reply with quote

Curious: which PHP version are you using? Is the OPCache module loaded?
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Materix



Joined: 30 Aug 2012
Posts: 37

PostPosted: Thu 25 Mar '21 15:54    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is PHP 5.6.40 and no OPCache. Does OPCache help?
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Jan-E



Joined: 09 Mar 2012
Posts: 1248
Location: Amsterdam, NL, EU

PostPosted: Thu 25 Mar '21 16:16    Post subject: Reply with quote

OPcache is tricky. I had it working for a Drupal 7 site for a long time with PHP 5.6 as mod_fcgid. In theory it should work.

Are you running the 64-bits or the 32-bits version of PHP 5.6.40?

Ever thought of upgrading to PHP 7 (7.4)? That version is quite mature now and faster than PHP 5.6.
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Materix



Joined: 30 Aug 2012
Posts: 37

PostPosted: Thu 25 Mar '21 20:10    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the reply!

64-bit version of PHP.

It is a legacy application, so PHP 7/8 is not currently an option.
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