Re: performance issues with apache + php + nfs?

[Alexander Bochmann <ab_(_at_)_lists_(_dot_)_gxis_(_dot_)_de>]

...on Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:01:41PM +1000, Adrian wrote:

 > I'm wondering if anyone can share their experiences or offer suggestions
 > running an apache web server with web pages (in this case PHP pages)
 > sourced from an NFS mounted file system. [..]
 > I'm sure many people will simply say "don't use NFS", however I do have
 > some reasons for this. [..]

We had such a setup for quite some time (with 
Linux frontends and Solaris backend, though). 
Worked ok at first, but then scaled really bad 
with growing load.

We got a major performance boost with the same 
hardware when we switched to rsync'ing the data 
from a central system to local disks on the web 
frontends instead of using nfs.

(On the other hand, I was told about similar 
setups that worked quite well, but I assume 
NetApp filers as backend and Sun Enterprise 
systems as frontend are just another league.)

Alex.