[Justin]

Thank you for the detailed responses! They were very helpful.

Originally Posted by xing

Setting above size=4 (4MB) gives errors right now.

I'm not sure where in the php.ini file you are referring to here, so I made no changes other than the three lines you explicitly mentioned.

I have Litespeed running with APC 3.0.10, and running the "siege" load test tool locally for 30 seconds on phpinfo.php on a dual 1.0 GHz G4 Xserve produces the following results:

$ siege --concurrent=10 --time=30S --delay=0 --url=http://localhost/phpinfo.php
Transactions:                   5775 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                  30.25 secs
Data transferred:          172615343 bytes
Response time:                  0.05 secs
Transaction rate:             190.91 trans/sec
Throughput:               5706292.50 bytes/sec
Concurrency:                    9.94
Successful transactions:        5775
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:            0.27
Shortest transaction:           0.01

I have no idea whether the above results are indicative of typical performance with Litespeed+APC on the above-mentioned class of hardware; perhaps you can take a look and let me know what you think.

The next step is getting Rails running on Litespeed via the Ruby LSAPI module (as opposed to fastcgi). If you could possibly test Rails via the Ruby LSAPI on your MacTel server and document the steps as you did above and post them in the new thread I created, I imagine you will have a number of very grateful folks (including me!)

Thanks again for all of your help!

Justin