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APM Insight PHP Agent Performance Report

 

Test Environment

        OS : 64 bit Linux OS

        CPU : Intel i5, 2.5 Hz, 4 cores

        Memory : 8 GB

        Apache Web Server

 

Impact on CPU usage :

When the target web application is set to receive 300 requests per minute, the APM Insight PHP Agent consumes only 1 % CPU on average (using default production settings). 


On increasing the throughput to 600 requests per minute, the APM Insight PHP agent consumes around 0.3-1.6% CPU on average.


The below table summarizes the details.

RPM (Requests per Minute)

% CPU Usage (Without Agent)

% CPU Usage (With Agent)

300

0.1-0.2

0.1-1.2

600

0.6-1.9

0.9-3.5

 

cpu usage

 

Impact on Physical Memory (RAM) usage: 

The APM Insight PHP Agent by default collects performance data and pushes it to its own service, every minute, and hence, the footprint on the user memory is minimal, and only transient.


The memory usage is a maximum of 212 KB at an RPM of 300, and a maximum of 24 KB at an RPM of 600.


The below table summarizes the details.

RPM (Requests per Minute)

Memory in KB (Without Agent)

Memory in KB (With Agent)

300

6344-8852

6360-9064

600

6360-9856

6364-988


Impact on binary data processing :

The above statistics are for agents running on an Apache web server. To understand how much memory and CPU the agent will consume when processing binary data, please see the below table. 

 

RPM (Requests per Minute)

% CPU Usage

Memory (KB)

300

0.1-0.3

4740-6012

600

0.3-0.7

4740-6104


Impact on application response time:


To calculate how fast php execution is, many use a PHP Benchmark script provided by http://www.php-benchmark-script.com/ The following table shows the impact of PHP agent's on your application's response time.

 

PHP version: 7.2.23-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1

Platform: Linux


Benchmark

Version 2.8

Version 2.9 

No Agent

test_ifelse

1.446 sec

0.805 sec

0.763 sec

test_loop

1.911 sec

1.520 sec

1.511 sec

test_stringmanipulation

5.793 sec

3.065 sec

3.031 sec

test_math

4.578 sec

2.633 sec

2.569 sec

total

13.728 sec

8.023 sec

7.874 sec

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