XAMPP Running really slowly with PHP/MySQL [closed]

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Recent (Jan 2013) installation of XAMPP but same code base as both production server and another development machine. It took 2+ seconds each time PHP connected to MySQL, and in some transactions there were several connections. I tried skip-name-resolve in the my.ini file, this failed completely. I then made a one character change to the hosts file and all worked. Go to c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc. Edit hosts. Remove the # comment character from the local host line (or perhaps add it as below)

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1       localhost

Stopped and restarted MySQL service. This was a complete fix.

Answer 2

For me, the answer was this:

Answer

You need to close xampp program first, then go and right click the xampp_start.exe and xampp-control.exe files in the xampp directory, selecting "properties", then check "Run as administrator" in the "Compatibility" tab. You should run xampp then and click the red buttons (X) to activate as services (Apache and Mysql). As I said, that did the magic for me.

Answer 3

I have faced similar problems so I can help. But with the information provided it may not be feasible to debug further.

Can you use any OS specific tool (you can also start with the task manager) and check what is consuming the most CPU and Memory times respectively? We will need to solve this iteratively and hopefully arrive at a solution.

At this point of time it could be anything - a cpu heavy process, a resource conflict, a disk intensive i/o or just something that is paging/trashing heavily etc.

Answer 4

I used to have the same issues with PHP on xampp. After a while it started slowing down, there was no reason for it (code, mysql, apache were all fine).

The way I had gotten it to work was via xampp's command line interface. I had switched the networking interface from v4v6 to just v4; and that that had done the trick, then shortly after it slowed down again... so doing the v4 back to v4v6 fixed, but again worstened.

So, after working with xampp for a number of years, I found that wamp worked best and has no issues on Windows 7.

Download wamp; it's only 16mb too (compared to xampp's 44mb). http://wampserver.com/

Answer 5

The simple solution could be to provide IP as the hostname in the database connection. like,

  'hostname' => '127.0.0.1',
  'username' => 'mysql_user',
  'password' => 'mysql_user',