Long request blocks other requests in Apache and PHP

Question

I have a request that takes about 1.5 minutes to complete, but when it does the request, it blocks all the other requests by the server. I\'m using Apache with mod_php. What

Answer 1

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Do you use sessions? If so - while you haven't closed session in long script, others will wait for it.

If you don't need session there all the time - you can close it with session_write_close()

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Answer 2

File based Sessions will cause blocking. If you use a database or memcache/redis you can prevent this blocking.