Compling PHP messes up my server

[iUnknown]

Compling PHP increases server load dramatically (x5 what it's normally at) and crashes everything.... why?

Thanks.

[anewday]

What does the log say?

[iUnknown]

Sorry, which log?

[iUnknown]

I've just found that I shouldn't really need to compile PHP because the "Build Matching PHP Binary" actually did work. The reason I thought it didn't was because I thought it was missing a few on the phpinfo() page I made showing the modules... infact it was just missing '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs'...... obviously, because it's not apache.

I originally thought compiling php again would fix the problem I am having here:

http://www.litespeedtech.com/support...2403#post12403

Now this is even more puzzling because both apache's PHP and litespeed's PHP contain the same modules... so that shouldn't be a problem... What could be causing this?

[mistwang]

If it has been messed up to a point that you have no clue how to fix it, the easiest solution is to start over from scratch again.

[iUnknown]

I mean that it increases server load to far too high for the server to cope... takes a while to return to normal after me stopping compiling (or atleast closing the webpage with the compiling going on).

[mistwang]

compiling will cause high CPU utilization, so server load will be definitely higher. Same is true if you rebuild Apache with easyapache. Just do that due your off-peak hour.

[iUnknown]

Yeah but I don't expect exim, ftp etc. to all go down and server load over 100? Of course it will increase server load, but apache update only increases it a little, not by 100...?

[mistwang]

Must be something wrong the PHP binary created, you can try restart over. Put LiteSpeed on another port to make sure everything work properly, then let it take live traffic.

[iUnknown]

Litespeed is not on port 80, apache is. I can't use litespeed until it works.