Apache 2.2 with Worker or prefork?

I use Prefork. I think he recommended that above.

Are you experiencing problems?

 

Interesting

I thought mod_suphp would run fine with worker, however I had several boxes end up with PHP processes that never died out. I thought maybe it was worker causing it but I am not to sure about that one.

Of course with worker it was super stable when it came to httpd requests that thing never failed on a request. Prefork on the other hand I'd say once a day I got at least one notice from a monitoring service (Run 3 of them all 1 minute monitoring) saying something failed a request.

I wish I could have figured out what was causing the PHP processes to hang (no cpu just ram). But not much an expert with regards to debugging that sort of stuff.

 

We noticed the same issue and end up going back to prefork for more stable httpd. However, CPU usage definitely get much higher due to much higher rate of spawning process.

Definitely worker + mod_suphp will give much faster response for httpd but memory leak and php process hang may cause server to hang due to too much memory consumption over time.

 

Well prefork has this issue as well I noticed, however you may only see maybe one show up over the course of a day or two opposed to worker where you leave it 12 hours and you could have 20 php processes just sitting there.