Topic by Request: Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 (CentOS 5.0)

[mandy]

Topic by request (of BBH) 

This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 on a CentOS 5.0 system. From the eAccelerator project page: "eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times."

full how to: http://www.howtoforge.com/eaccelerator_php5_centos5.0

[regic]

Topic by request (of BBH)

He installed it on the new server last night.

[bargainbloodhound]

This is the home page of our TS site (Core 2 Duo server w/ 2GB RAM) before EA and with EA:

Before EA (with gzip): Parse Time: - Number of Queries: 1369 - Query Time: 1.0714952357788
With EA (and gzip): Parse Time: - Number of Queries: 1371 - Query Time: 0.56954386817932

EA cut the load times by about 50%.

Now if only ZenCart would do something about the abnormally high number of database queries its script makes...

[rose]

read this article: Cache Performance Comparison.