I have a PHP script that uses cURL
to load a file from another server.
The file is about 24MB. I understand why the script itself loading the file would take a bit to execute, however any request to the site while the script it running will hault until the script finishes.
This did not happen on our old shared server with the same script. The new server is a cloud server. I took it up to 10 nodes (6Ghz dedicated cpu, 3760MB ram, 2500GB bandwidth) and it had no effect on this issue.
I don't mind the script itself taking a long time to execute since it is going to be an automated task for a data feed. I can't have the whole site locking up while it runs though.
Any ideas why this could be happening?
Update it looks like this is only happening locally. If I try to load the site on a separate computer while the script is running it works as expected.
apache2 -V
will give you the MPM. For the module, check what's in/etc/apache2/mods-enabled
- if both are in there, you'll need to look at your config to see which is used.