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Ez 3.7.2 and PHP-accelerating

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Steph A

Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:57:29 pm

I was just wondering what kind a PHP-accelerator to use for 3.7.2 that supports PHP 4.4.1?

I am currently running FreeBSD 5.4 without any accelerators - and the speed is painfully slow. 10 sec loadtime on a dedicated server... :)

Ɓukasz Serwatka

Wednesday 25 January 2006 12:03:03 am

Hi Steph,

I have been working with IonCube, APC and eAccelerator. The last one had the best performance. But your 10s is really to much, I suspecting that problem is somewhere else. PHP Accelerator can help, but don't expect performance boost from 10s to 0,12s.

Take a look at this topic:

http://ez.no/community/forum/general/ez_speed_optimisation_faq/re_ez_speed_optimisation_faq__14

http://ez.no/community/forum/install_configuration/ez_publish_performance

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Steph A

Wednesday 25 January 2006 1:45:11 am

Thanx for the suggestion. I have fixed some server issues - and now the loadtime is about 1.4 sec ... still not too fast. Havent got too many nodes either, and the templatecode is pretty simple....

I had someone to install a php-accelerator, but and they said that there where some version conflict, and that I could not use the accelarator with php 4.4.1...

I think they tried to install the accelerator from www.php-accelerator.co.uk ... is there any problem getting a accelerator to php 4.4.1?

Any to recommend?

Thanx..

Paul Borgermans

Wednesday 25 January 2006 2:58:42 am

Try eaccelerator, slightly better performance:

http://eaccelerator.net/

I installed (compiled) and tested on 3.7.2 with PHP 4.4.0 (64 bit)

hth

--paul

eZ Publish, eZ Find, Solr expert consulting and training
http://twitter.com/paulborgermans

Sebastian Picklum

Thursday 26 January 2006 12:29:13 pm

I hope the following information is still valid: with FreeBSD Version 5.4:
Please notice that FreeBSD is a performance killer itself, since it does a stat()-call for on every file access for every directory level. e.g. /home/youruser/public_html/ezpublish/index.php would result in 5 stat() calls.
You can boost performance by placing ezpublish direct under the root directory or by using Linux as server os.

Regards

Sebastian

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Xavier Dutoit

Thursday 26 January 2006 11:51:53 pm

Hi,

I know that Gabriel is into BSD and from what I heard, he's happy with the performance, at least better than 10 seconds to load a page ;)

Don't know if it's related but if I'm right he uses XFS.

Gabriel, over to you...

X+

http://www.sydesy.com

Gabriel Ambuehl

Friday 27 January 2006 12:08:51 am

Actually, I had sub 1 second load times on FreeBSD 4.11 without eaccelerator and sub 0.2s with eaccelerator. There should be accelerators in the ports tree IIRC. (I think latest eaccelerator supports PHP 4.4)

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Steph A

Sunday 29 January 2006 7:23:15 am

Thanx for all inputs guys. I still use FreeBSD 5.4 - but managed to get the loadtime down to 0.14 sec with eAccelerator :D

Now I`m happy... :)

If anyone was wondering about hard/software:
Apache/2.1.4 (FreeBSD) PHP/4.4.1
AMD Sempron(tm) 2400+ (686-class CPU) 1666.49- MHz RAM: 239,94 MB

Gabriel Ambuehl

Sunday 29 January 2006 7:31:31 am

That machine ss awfully low on RAM. 512 or more (preferably 1G+) wouldn't hurt at all under load.

But the times seem ok.

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Steph A

Sunday 29 January 2006 7:50:29 am

Yes I know its low on ram, but for now I just use this as develop-space. When I go live I will upgrade it as needed :)

But still, 0,14sec and often lower is not too bad - or what?

Gabriel Ambuehl

Sunday 29 January 2006 7:53:30 am

That's rather good, actually.

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