Kanwaljeet Singla's Blog : PHP

Feature additions and bug fixes coming up in WinCache

ksingla — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:35:00 GMT

We are seeing huge momentum behind adoption of WinCache . In the month of September, WinCache v1 Beta was downloaded more than 13,000 times making it one of the most downloaded IIS extensions in the first month following its release. Many happy customers...(read more)

Migrating FastCGI configuration from IIS 5.1/6.0 to IIS 7.0/7.5

ksingla — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:18:00 GMT

Problem As you know FastCGI functionality on IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 is provided by FastCGI ISAPI extension which is available as an independent download. On IIS 7.0 and beyond, FastCGI functionality is provided by IIS FastCGI module which comes with the...(read more)

How WinCache make PHP run faster

ksingla — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:03:00 GMT

Why WinCache? Use of PHP accelerators is very common to make PHP run faster. Most of the existing PHP accelerators which are in use today are designed keeping *nix architecture in mind and mostly doesn’t work well on Windows. For example, APC which is...(read more)

Getting both FastCGI module and AppPool CPULimit to work

ksingla — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:29:00 GMT

FastCGI module available in IIS 7.0 did not work when CPULimit for the application pool was enabled. This was because when CPULimit feature was enabled WAS uses job objects to track CPU usage of worker processes. WAS keeps a job object for each application...(read more)

FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 Beta for WinXP and Win2K3

ksingla — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:39:00 GMT

IIS team today released FastCGI ISAPI 1.5 Beta for WinXP and Win2K3 which has some very nice additions to existing FastCGI ISAPI functionality. Following additions have been made to FastCGI ISAPI 1.0 . 1. Few features we added to FastCGI module in IIS...(read more)

Improvements to FastCGI in IIS 7.5

ksingla — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:10:00 GMT

Following improvements have been made to FastCGI module in Win7 (and Win2K8 R2). 1. Monitor changes to a file We have added ability to monitor changes to a file for each FastCGI process pool. Module will recycle FastCGI processes for the process pool...(read more)