[Mageia-sysadm] Forum VM needs

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 12 January 2011 21:27, Maât <maat-ml at vilarem.net> wrote:
> So phpBB needs a LAMP Stack : Apache + PHP5 + MysSQL5 (it prefers to have MySQLi extention)

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> For performance questions : i guess forum opening will trigger a rather vast amount of people coming (at least to register their nicks)... i'd be happy to avoid the server being loaded to death.
>
> So i'm targetting at least one thousand simultaneous users being active on the forum... that will do for apache tuning.

or use nginx instead of apache.
Load peaks are exactly where nginx beats apache (one process per core
vs one process/thread per connection):
- stable memory usage over time
- less unhandled requests on load

On one server I set up, nginx+php-fpm+mysql handled 1.5 millions
request in one hour with ridiculous load
as well as ridiculous stable memory usage (2gb where most where system
buffers & cache)