PHP in Solaris 10 and Non-Global Zones: Problem of performance?

Question

Hi friends
We are feeling a poor performance with applications developed with PHP in Solaris 10, with non-global and global zones, while Intel platform (Xeon and Pentium), performance is very good. Difference between both platforms is about 200% aprox, one second in Intel to 9, 12 or 20 seconds in Solaris depending of model.
Our tests were developed in:
1. SF T2000 server Solaris 10 global zone
2. SF T2000 server Solaris 10 non-global zone
3. SF280R server Solaris 10 non-global zone
4. V240 server with 1 GB memory, 1*US III-i 1.0 GHz and Solaris 9 (really this version for test and comparisons)
5. V240 server with 8GB memory, 2*US III-i 1.5Ghz and Solaris 9 (really this version for test and comparisons too)
Intel platforms were:
1. Intel Pentium 4 2GHz 2GB memory, Linux Fedora and PHP 4.4.4
2. Intel Xeon 2 core, 2.33GHz 2GB memory, Linux Fedora and PHP 4.4.3
Versions of products are:
1. Solaris 9 or Solaris 10
2. PHP 4.4.7 downloaded from http://www.php.net/downloads.php
3. Apache 2.0.59
4. MySQL 4.1.15-log
Our php compilation and installation were:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php-4.4.7 \
--with-pear \
--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \
--with-gettext \
--with-ldap=/usr/local \
--with-iconv \
--enable-ftp \
--with-dom \
--with-mime-magic \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-zlib \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-sigchild \
--disable-ctype \
--disable-overload \
--disable-tokenizer \
--disable-posix \
--with-gd \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2.0.53/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql  \
--with-pgsql \
--with-oci8=/oracle/product/9.2.0 \
--with-oracle=/oracle/product/9.2.0  \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local
make
make install
Questions:
Is there any problem of PHP with SunFire T2000 servers or 64-bits platforms?
Is there any flag of PHP would be use to compilarion PHP in 64-bits or multithread?
I wait for any comments or suggestions about our problem with PHP compilation and performance in Solaris 10. Thanks a lot.
Sergio.

Answer 1

I presume you compiled php on the Sun server, was this done using gcc or the Sun One C compiler.
If the latter then you can also use the flag: --enable-nonportable-atomics when you run configure