Comment 4 for bug 498022

Yes, to follow up on dgltmoon's post, we always disabled the extension completely, and that's not the problem this bug is talking about. The problem is that a patch to the PHP core is always applied in the Ubuntu packages, and that always modifies behavior in ways that are both memory and cpu intensive no matter whether or not you turn off all possible suhoshin options including completely disabling (or not installing) the extension package.

This problem still exists with current Ubuntu releases (even without php-suhosin, the extension package, installed at all) and it's pretty surprising that it doesn't get addressed. There are tons of posts around the web about this problem and how to work around it, as well as numerous related bug posts. It seems like the Ubuntu PHP maintainers just aren't serious about providing an enterprise grade PHP setup on Ubuntu but instead only on targeting small users where perf is unimportant.

We'd still love a proper solution and continue to be forced to maintain our own packages because of this failure.