[csw-users] Problems using apache, perl and php

[Jan Dreyer]

Hi,

we have two webservers with similar (speed-) problems:
Systems are Solaris 10 zones with apache (1.3.34) and PHP5 
(5.2.1,REV=2007.03.15) btw. Perl (5.8.8,REV=2007.03.16). Hardware is a 
E450 with no other zones beside a YP-Slave.

We tried to serve a mediawiki on the one with php5 and otrs on the other 
(with perl). Both are responding very slow (About 10-20 Sek. for a 
request from our intranet).

Both frontends are using mysql-databases. As the access to the database 
from the webserver commandline is very fast, this is NOT the bottleneck. 
Other, static pages are fast, so the access to the webserver isn't either.

I spend some time with otrs searching for the bottleneck and it seemed 
that perl itself (or one of the standard modules) is bad as it does too 
much filesystem-requests. An old version of xammp could have solved that 
but that included to install several versions of perl/apache/mysql etc., 
which didn't match our policy. I fear to loose this service to the 
windows guys ...

Our mediawiki shows the same problems. Here is no perl involved and I 
have no idea where the error is (it isn't the database, as shown above).

Anyone here, who made similar observations or has an idea what has gone 
wrong?!

Greetings
Jan Dreyer