PHP caching support - Xcache, eAccelerator etc

[samsam]

This may or may not have been answered before (my forum searches yielded nothing...): are any of the following PHP caches supported/enabled at Dathorn.

http://itst.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/PHP%20Bytecode%20Cacher%20Review.html

I used to run a simple PHP cache called jpcache here once, and it worked fine, but the caches on that benchmark list are more mature and effective, and better supported.

However they also seem to require a deeper level of system access than I suspect I have access to at Dathorn - ie I don't think Andrew would want me, in the case of Xcache, installing any RPMs onto the server or installing from source either. Unless I am wrong...

I am particularly interested in Xcache, although I have also used eAccelerator before elsewhere, and it is very fast and stable.

I want to run a few light forums here for a project of mine, and using one of these PHP caches would be essential for performance purposes.

[AndrewT]

Nothing like this is available at this time. Some of them have problems with phpsuexec or outright will not work with it. Though this is certainly something that we would like to offer in the future if it is feasible given that itwould benefit everyone.

[samsam]

Nothing like this is available at this time. Some of them have problems with phpsuexec or outright will not work with it. Though this is certainly something that we would like to offer in the future if it is feasible given that itwould benefit everyone.

Thanks for info. Yes, it makes sense for these things to be available on the underlying Apache/PHP system site-wide - at least one of these products. (Probably not a good idea to install more than one )

Of the current open-source ones, eAcellerator seems to run fine on LAMP RedHat/CentOS, from my direct experience, but I don't know about how it goes with cPanel and Dathorn's config.

Xcache is a bit nicer and more up-to-date than eAccel, has a web GUI too, so I'd suggest giving that a good look first, if you decide to go down this path:

Nice Xcache install and screenshots here FYI too on ibm.com.

In the meantime I guess I'll see if jpcache will work with the forum app I was thinking about. It is pretty ancient code by now, but jpcache is just a plain PHP app and so it might have to do the job.

[AndrewT]

The main gotcha is that we use phpsuexec and run PHP as CGI instead of as an Apache module. AFAIK, none of them work well or at all this way. Though I haven't paid much attention to them lately (mostly due to this very issue).