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Eaccelerator works really well at reducing load on servers running dadaIMC

From: Daniel P <dannyp-AT-indypgh.org>
Date: 03 Oct 2006 17:51:23 UTC   (12:51:23 PM in author's locale)
To: dadaimc-AT-lists.dadaimc.org

Hey everyone,

My name is Daniel, and I volunteer with the Pittsburgh IMC tech
collective. We run a machine that hosts several dadaIMC installs, and
we recently installed eaccelerator, an open-source PHP opcode cache.

The result was the load going down tremendously on the machine, and the
speed at which dadaIMC pages were served going up significantly.

A graph of the load average over time. You can guess when eaccelerator
was turned on just by looking:

howard.indypgh.org/~dannyp/opcode.png

For more on eaccelerator:

eaccelerator.net/

I imagine you'd get similar results with other opcode caches (e.g. APC).

The install took not much mroe than 5 minutes of time and was painless.
It requires some extra disk space (for our server, which hosts 5 dada
installs, it's currently at 960 megabytes of cache files) but disk is cheap.

Daniel

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