Re: [PHP-DEV] mod_php4 question... From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 09/26/01

We actually use the getcwd() result in order to support good error messages
and include_once() and friends. It's a bit sucky that getcwd() is so slow
on Solaris. On Linux it's extremely fast because it doesn't do a million
chdir(..).
I'm not that enthusiastic about changing the current behavior.
Andi

At 06:01 PM 9/25/2001 -0600, Andy Sautins wrote:

> I posted a previous message that, I must admit, was probably not that
>well thought out.
>I've looked a little further and I'm getting a better feel for what is going
>on, but I was wondering
>if someone in the know would be able to clarify.
>
> I'm using php with Apache. When I truss a simple file, I see the majority
>of the system calls
>in stat calls. It tracks down to a getcwd ( defined with VCWD_GETCWD ),
>which seems to
>do alot of I/O on solaris. Given that on a heavily loaded box, avoid that
>much I/O ( especially if
>it is just checking the same filepath that was checked previously), seems
>wasteful and can lead
>to high I/O waits. The call stack is something along the lines of:
>
> 1 send_php
> 2 zend_execute_scripts
> 3 zend_compile_file
> 4 complie_file
> 5 open_file_for_scanning
> 6 zend_fopen
> 7 php_fopen_wrapper_for_zend
> 8 php_fopen_wrapper
> 9 php_fopen_url_wrapper
> 10 php_fopen_with_path
> 11 php_fopen_and_set_opened_path
> 12 expand_filepath
> 13 vcwd_getcwd
>
> It seems to me that the path is available from apache ( either through
>the request structure or as part of
>the filename ). My question is, what would be the harm in doing something
>like have mod_php4.c open
>the file and set file_handle->handle.fp and close it ( or some other
>mechanism from having to call the whole
>php_fopen_and_set_opened_path ) to avoid the getcwd?
>
> Any thoughts? I'll do some more testing, but I wanted to get some expert
>feedback before I went too far
>down the wrong path.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/>
>To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe <email protected>
>For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help <email protected>
>To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin <email protected> 

-- 
PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/>
To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe <email protected>
For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help <email protected>
To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin <email protected>