Topic: [SOLVED]Slow PHP on Windows

[nucleartux]

This is an issue I've been having for a long time. I want to run symfony2 applications on my windows computer and it has a terribly high load time, around 5-10 seconds.
I uploaded my files to a linux server, on which it runs in around 300-500 ms
I tried many severs(xampp, wamp, IIS, all of them), many cache modules(apc, memcache, wincache), tried to disable antivirus, install sites to RAM disk, nothing helps.
I found this issues on SO
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9854848/windows-7-php-symfony2-terribly-slow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7741043/php5-performance-comparison-windows-and-linux
but they do not contain solutions.

[James Blond]

On user suggests to use WinCache

WinCache on php.net
Official WinCache site
Download on source forge

Might be a disadvantage, that it run only with the NTS (non thread safe version), so you have to use mod fcgid. But with the right configuration php over mod fcgid can be as fast as the module (at least from my experience)


it is also important which version of PHP you use on Windows. 5.3 is 40% faster than 5.2. And 5.4 is faster than 5.3 (according to Pierre Joye the windows developer for windows and Rasmus Lerdorf)

[nucleartux]

As I wrote above, I already tried wincache. It doesn't help.

UPD: I should correct myselft. It help, it reduce load time for 25-50%, from 2s to 1-1.5s.
But it is very much! On Linux the same site loaded for 300-500ms

[James Blond]

From what I googled in the last minutes is that won't get a better time on windows.
What you can do is caching from the application itself to increase speed. Did you also check the Database as bottleneck?
On a testing server, not productive, you should try xdebug to see which part of your application is slow.

[nucleartux]

I found solution: Zend Server works fine.

[samanthacastle]

I'm having the same problem on my server: do you know why you solved the problem (eg root cause?)

Sam

[riana]

please tell the details of the solution, or is that enough just cover for the server ?

thanks, riana designer home office furniture