Not much to see in the strace output. But the favicon.ico effect is interesting ]]> Not much else to do here. 378 req/sec and 10ms latency is about as good as it gets from this little machine. We can also look at the xhprof output and the xdebug callgraph where we see that the Database is the bottleneck, as it should be. And the include hierachy is nice and flat.