I wrote: > I am running SuSE 9.2 (Kernel 2.6.8-24-default) with Apache 2.0.50 and PHP > 4.3.8 (as an Apache module) on a Celeron 900 with 304MB RAM. This machine > is used for testing. We have made some changes to our PHP application and > now the machine is having trouble serving the pages. Apache is occupying > almost 90% CPU usage. I have resolved this issue by removing a piece of code which reads a set of parameters from a database. It seems that the hard disk on the machine is quite slow, slowing down all database access with it... I now check if the parameters are set in the session, if it is I use them otherwise I read them from the database and save it as session variables. When it changes I simply remove it from the session so it forces an update. So far it is working quite well. I now want to go and take all the static stuff that the user will configure once in a life time and put it in the session and only update it when it changes instead of reading it from the database every five seconds or so. For this I don't want to use a disk based session handler. I want the session variables to remain in memory (about 20KB per user) as to speed up the whole process. I also want an opcode cache to cache the compiled pages on the server in an attempt to speed up the HTTP server. For this I wanted to use mmCache (actually I want to use Zend Performance Suite but first I need to prove that it is worth $ 1000 per CPU and from the stats on the mmCache site mmCache is faster...) but it seems that the mmCache project has been abandoned as there have been no work done on it since 2003. Can someone confirm this or recommend an alternate cache (doesn't have to be free but should break the bank) which will do what I want? Albert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: 2006/01/18 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
