Nginx with PHP - windows performance

After 2 days of testing I’m able to run nginx on Windows Vista x64 SP2
with PHP
I’m using a Kevin W. 1.04 cygwin build with 2 worker processes
and 5 child’s of php-cgi.exe
On a hardware like Laptop with Intel Core2Duo P8400 2.26GHz with 3GB of
RAM and 250GB 7200 1/min HDD
I’ve been able to receive results like below:

nginx + PHP
[Tested locally with Apache Benche - using: ab.exe -n 5000 -c 1000
127.0.0.1/
The file reached is index.php with code only <?php phpinfo(); ?>]

nginx + php 5.3.6 x86 build thread-safe → 199 requests / sec
nginx + php 5.3.6 x86 build NON thread-safe → 208 requests / sec
nginx + php 5.3.6 x64 build thread-safe → 176 requests / sec
nginx + php 5.3.6 x64 build NON thread-safe → 185 requests / sec

nginx + HTML
[Tested locally with Apache Benche - using: ab.exe -n 5000 -c 1000
127.0.0.1/
The file reached is index.html created by Kevin W.]

nginx with multi_accept off → 445 requests / sec
nginx with multi_accept on → 900 requests / sec

Level of failed requests never was higher than 5 requests.

My nginx.conf
#user nobody;
worker_processes 2;

#error_log logs/error.log debug;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log error;

pid logs/nginx.pid;

events {
worker_connections 2048;

multi_accept gives wings but only with HTML - not PHP!!!

multi_accept off;
accept_mutex on;
}

http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

#log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]

“$request” ’
# '$status $body_bytes_sent “$http_referer” ’
# ‘“$http_user_agent” “$http_x_forwarded_for”’;

access_log off;
#access_log logs/access.log main;

sendfile        on;
#tcp_nopush     on;

Enable only on CYGWIN nginx build !!

ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;

keepalive_timeout  30;

gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1000;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
gzip_types text/plain application/xml;
gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].”;

Settings for multiple php-cgi.exe

upstream backend {
server 127.0.0.1:9000;
server 127.0.0.1:9001;
server 127.0.0.1:9002;
server 127.0.0.1:9003;
server 127.0.0.1:9004;
}

server {
    listen       80;
listen       443 ssl;
    server_name  www.sklep.beta.ostrowwlkp.pl;
ssl_certificate server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key server.key;

    #charset koi8-r;

    #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

    location / {
        root   html;
        index  index.php;
    }

# Statyczne elementy mogą być cache'owane przez przeglądarkę przez

określoną ilość dni [lub max]
#
#location ~* .(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
# expires 30d;
#}

    #error_page  404              /404.html;

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   html;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on

127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ .php$ {
root html;
fastcgi_pass backend;
#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
c:/nginx/html/$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #    deny  all;
    #}
}

}

Any proposition for improvement ???
Enabling multi_accept on; with PHP pages is crashing connection.

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