PHP-FPM APC Disk I/O

One of my PHP-FPM APC on Nginx installs was having some disk I/O from php-fpm children. I made a change to php.ini which reduced this by a factor of 5. 5x less disk I/O from php-fpm.

Nginx Image Filter Module Mu WordPress Conf

Nginx Image Filter Module is a fantastic module for serving resized images. Mu WordPress can use a lot of cpu’s and ram for image serving and this module can eliminate this problem. With this set up I was able to take my resized image serving up to 5000 requests per second. (2500 r/ps non cached, 5000 r/ps proxy cached)

Faster Nginx WPMU Image Processing

I’ve been testing the Nginx Image Filter Module with WPMU.  So far it promises to save a lot of resources while delivering images for wpmu blogs at blistering speed.