After 2 days of testing I'm able to run nginx on Windows Vista x64 SP2 with PHP I'm using a Kevin Worthington 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 nginx + php 5.3.6 x86 build thread-safe -> 199by jack_ - Nginx Mailing List - English