I understand what your saying... I am not part of the dev team nor do I have any PHP programming skills beyond test pages and very crude scripts. I do know that if we were to turn off memcache, our DB server would skyrocket in load and bring our site to a halt almost and put hugs loads on the server. >From what I understand, the dev guys store almost everything that can be stored in the DB.... allot of the queries are unique too, not sure how that works with mod_cache?? I will also check up on Xdebug and see how that works from within our code and read up more on mod_cache... Thanks for all you help guys, its been really appreciated.. And a df -I on one of my web servers looks like this... Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda5 77070336 574507 76495829 1% / /dev/sda2 524288 43 524245 1% /tmp /dev/sda1 26104 47 26057 1% /boot tmpfs 2054442 1 2054441 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 2054442 1612 2052830 1% /var/cache/php-eaccelerator/RAM Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Millikan [mailto:gmillikan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:36 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Apache 2.x configuration for high load servers > Nor sure I understand where you say memcache is slow, we uses memcache > for session variables and for mysql query caching. I did not think > there was anything as reliable and fast or faster than that? Can you > elaborate on file-based-cache fro mysql querrie? Bostjan Skufca replied already however I'll say that mod_disk_cache is a great tool. But only on those pages which are high traffic, dynamic and most importantly are not customized based on session or IP address. You would not need to use any other caching tools like memcache - because the preassembled, compressed/zipped page is already assembled, sitting on disk - the page is just read off the disk and sent to the clients. Queries will not be run, code will not be executed - basically you're serving a static page right off the disk. You can see how this would both speed up the serving of the page and free up the database (and RAM) to do other things. Thanks, Geoff Millikan @ http://www.t1shopper.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx