http://blog.tqhosting.com/2007/lighttpd-runs-circles-around-apache/ The ins and outs of hosting Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:39:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://blog.tqhosting.com/2007/lighttpd-runs-circles-around-apache/#comment-2 Amr Hamdy Sat, 05 May 2007 00:46:49 +0000 http://blog.tqhosting.com/2007/lighttpd-runs-circles-around-apache/#comment-2 You are right ... After suffering for many weeks to optimize apache for best performance on a VPS with a memory limit of 512 MB running heavy forum I couldn't make any great improvement ... So moved to lighttpd ... yes it could be much faster with so much lower memory usage ... - I've faced really one big problem that the I/O load could get very high sometimes due to the php-fastcgi ... I've then decreased the number of running php processes and used xcache with much memory caching allowed ... then I could get great results .. the memory usage doesn't exceed 250MB and the CPU load average is 0.50 ... Those are great results ... You are right … After suffering for many weeks to optimize apache for best performance on a VPS with a memory limit of 512 MB running heavy forum I couldn’t make any great improvement … So moved to lighttpd … yes it could be much faster with so much lower memory usage …
- I’ve faced really one big problem that the I/O load could get very high sometimes due to the php-fastcgi … I’ve then decreased the number of running php processes and used xcache with much memory caching allowed … then I could get great results .. the memory usage doesn’t exceed 250MB and the CPU load average is 0.50 …
Those are great results …

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