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Originally Posted by Brandon Martus
I just installed [size=-1]the Zend Optimizer/Encoder which should increase php/apache performance by 40%. Maybe that'll speed things up a bit.  |
Just a quick thought,
The Zend Optimizer is very good at increasing the load that PHP can handle. It is one of those rare products which performs nearly as well as advertized.
That said, Eaccelerator is even faster. It is a fork of the Turck mmcache project, which is used by Wikipedia. I have a large amount of data here from some comparisons of Zend Optimizer and Eaccelerator 0.9.2, if you are interested in looking at it. A quick summary of the data - Eaccelerator is statistically significantly faster than the Zend Optimizer 2.5.7 in database operations with MySQL under PHP 4 and 5, "improved" MySQL operations in PHP5, and file I/O under PHP4. The differences between the two are statistically insignificant when the php scripts are forking processes, text processing, and php control statements (eg phpinfo). You might want to look into it.
There is something else you might want to try. If you are using Apache 2, try mod_cache and mod_mem_cache together. You can set up Apache to cache all content coming from Chiefdelphi. This is not difficult to set up at all and can help quite a bit.
If you are still running Apache 1.3.x, you would have to use mod_mmap_static. You can convert all archived/closed threads to static pages (just run the php CLI executable on those threads and save the output) and then use mmap_static to cache it. That would increase the speed of access to closed/old threads tremendously, while taking load off php.
Whatever you plan on using to increase capacity, good luck. Chiefdelphi.com is a tremendous resource to the FIRST community and we thank you for you great work.
And I would buy a CD t-shirt too. =)