Realworld benchmark
FudForum 2.6.15 Gallery v1.5.1-RC2-cvs-b6
Message Thread(*) Album View (9 thumbs)
PHP 4.4 Base 51.5 9.4
PHP 5.0 42.1 8.2
PHP 5.1 45.5 9.2
PHP 4.4 APC 3.0.6 145.0 23.4
PHP 5.0 APC 3.0.6 140.0 26.2
PHP 5.1 APC 3.0.6 142.6 29.8















Benchmark details

(*) Cleared fud26_ses table between each test

Client: OS-X 10.4.2 1.5GHz PPC-G4 1G RAM running http_load -parallel 5
Server: Ubuntu Linux kernel 2.6.10, 1.8GHz AMD Athlon, 1G RAM, cpu bound during test
Network: 100baseT crossover, no other traffic
Apache 1.3.33

PHP 4.4 Configure Line
./configure --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-freetype-dir=/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf \
            --with-freetype-dir=/usr --enable-gd-imgstrttf --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr \
            --enable-mbstring --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 --enable-exif --with-config-file-path=/etc \
            --with-mysql=/usr --with-zlib --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-expat=/usr --with-imap \
            --with-gettext --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl --with-mcrypt=/usr/local --with-iconv \
            --enable-sockets --with-openssl --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --with-dom-exslt \
            --without-pic --enable-ftp --with-mime-magic --with-snmp --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs

PHP 5.0/5.1 Configure Line
./configure --with-pdflib=/usr/local --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
            --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/usr --enable-gd-imgstrttf --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
            --with-png-dir=/usr --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 --enable-exif --with-config-file-path=/etc/php5 \
            --with-mysql=/usr --with-zlib --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-expat=/usr --with-imap \
            --with-gettext --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl --with-mcrypt=/usr/local --with-iconv \
            --enable-sockets --with-openssl --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs --without-pic --disable-pdo \
            --enable-soap --with-xmlreader --with-xsl --enable-ftp --with-curl --prefix=/usr/local/php5