PHP on PowerPC

shirleym

I am trying to use PHP on a 300 MHz PowerPC based board. On some pages, I am using $SERVER and $GET to get data from the webserver or from other PHP pages. The loading/execution time for those pages are painfully slow (about 30 - 40 seconds per page). This only happens if I run them on PowerPC. At first I thought it was the webserver (I used THTTPD). Then I changed it to LIGHTTPD and I only see minor decrease (5 seconds) in the loading time. Any idea how to speed it up? I am using PHP 4.4.5 (cgi-fcgi). Thanks.

Shirley

bpat1434

Optimize your code. You can go through and add timer marks to see how long it's taking for each step.... kind of like:

<?php
$start = time();

echo 'Including functions script ... ';
$item = time();
include_once('functions.php');
echo 'Done!! Process took ' . time()-$item . ' seconds to complete.<br />';

echo 'Starting function 1 ... ';
$item = time();
number1();
echo 'Done!! Process took ' . time()-$item1 . ' seconds to complete.<br />';

echo 'Starting function 2 ... ';
$item = time();
number2();
echo 'Done!! Process took ' . time()-$item1 . ' seconds to complete.<br />';

echo 'Page took ' . time()-$start . ' seconds to load.';
?>

Should give you an idea as to what code really needs to be worked on. But without seeing any code, we can't tell you how to speed up your code. Theoretically you could put it all on one line to make it load faster, or use an encoding technology (ZendCoder, NuSphere NuCoder, IonCube, etc.) to byte-encode your files to make them faster, but you need the decoder on the server to run those scripts.

shirleym

Thanks for the codes. I think the problem isn't with how the PHP codes are written as I can load those pages just fine on some other computers with different webserver and PHP version.

bpat1434

Well, there's really only a limited number of ways to make things faster:

1.) Increase the speed of the computer (memory, better CPU, etc.)
2.) Use a lower foot-print / faster server (LightTPD better than Apache, etc.)
3.) Rework your code to be faster

Other than that, the server itself is bogging down somewhere. Whether you choose to find where that bottleneck is (either by tracking times) is up to you. It's best to see what functions are causing your server to really go slowly. Perhaps you're doing some significant MySQL queries that take up lots of time. If that MySQL server is on your mac with Lighty, then there's a possible issue. If you can afford it, MySQL should be kept separate so that you can gain performance in MySQL and your server.

That's all I know. I've never run apache on a Mac before (though I want a mac) so I can't say definitively what the issue is.