[ciapug] Accelerating your PHP

[Tim Perdue]

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:32, Carl Olsen wrote:
> 
>>As you can tell, some of us have to deal with server administrators.
>>When someone tells me I need to prove a need for compiling code, it
>>makes me think I should be spending my time doing something else.
> 
> 
> Sorry about that. But a PHP accelerator is something i think should only 
> be used if absolutely necessary because it has the potential to 
> introduce bugs. And right now the main web server is not suffering from 
> performance issues. On the webmail server i ended up having to turn of 
> the accelerator's optimizer because it seemed to cause strange 
> failures. Since most of the performance boost of the accelerator comes 
> from caching the compiled code and not from optimizing it, that wasn't 
> too much of a loss. Also i'm not sure how easy it would be to make it 
> work on Solaris. So far my experience has been that Solaris is the 
> Windows version of Unix: everything is just a little more cumbersome 
> than it really needs to be.

I haven't seen any bugs with php eaccelerator or zend platform. I've 
seen bugs before with ioncube's free php4 accelerator though.

On Fedora Core 4-5 you can just 'yum install php-eaccelerator' and it's 
there and you'll never notice it. I'm running an extremely large OO php5 
application on it. Without the eaccelerator the performance would be 
unacceptable.

Tim