OT: PHP question, club related ... Options

[SirAndy]

ok, here's a silly PHP question ...

any given time (with traffic on the BBS) i see between 6 and 15 instances of PHP.EXE in the task manager. they all eat up memory and ressources ...

is there a way to tell PHP to run through the IIS-API ???
that should channel it all through 1 thread, right? same as it does with ASP or CGI ...

does PHP have the ability to run as a IIS extension? and if so, how do i configure it for that?
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif) Andy

[fiid]

QUOTE (SirAndy @ Feb 15 2005, 10:32 AM)

QUOTE (fiid @ Feb 15 2005, 09:55 AM) I thought that sort of behviour was reserved members of certain political parties. first of all, dude, re-read my post! i wasn't even talking about you!

sorry. bit overtired and overworked here too. (screaming baby doesn't help that much)

I think the main gain with php will be going to an in-process model - using the dll.

It might be worth looking at moving the db off onto another box too, and perhaps adding some caching to the php code. One advantage of getting the db off to another box is you could use two frontline webservers with a load balancer to divide the php load. (there are freeware solutions to the loadbalancing problem).

Anyways all stuff to think about. I'm happy to help if that's useful.