[ale] LAMP performance

[Brian Pitts]

On 09/13/2010 02:51 PM, mike barnes wrote:
> I have been asked to come up with a solution for a 6 sigma application
> that can have up to 1 million transaction/hour.
> 
> Since, I have not done a lot of work in the LAMP arena, I thought that I
> would see what issues I will be having using the following platform.
> 
> L --> Centos 5.x
> A --> Apache latest
> M --> MySQL Carrier Grade Engine with Solid State Drives
> P --> Latest
> 
> Issues that I think I need to consider
> 
> Application level --> Data cacheing, bytecode cacheing
> Database --> large memory foot print to hold most of database to
> alleviate disk IO
> Backup and replication --> Based on my reads from the web, this will be
> handled seemlessly by the database engine.
> 
> 
> What am I missing?

You may enjoy the mysql performance blog, both for their posts about
mysql performance and their more general posts about web servers, e.g.

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/05/21/speedup-your-lamp-stack-with-lighttpd/

A more academic but interesting read is

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts