config.php and PHP 5.5 OP Cache (Zend OPcache)

[Marcus]

How do you configure config.php for ZEND OPcache which is now available for free? It's bundled with PHP 5.5 and I added it to my PHP 5.4 installation.

http://de3.php.net/opcache

 

[xf_phantom]

It's an opcache and not a filecache

You can't configure here anything for the application.

 

[Marcus]

Thanks for your help I need to know more about caching procedures

 

[Moshe1010]

I got much better results with xCache and PHP 5.4 than PHP 5.5 + ZO.
PHP 5.5 was pretty buggy on my hand. I guess something with Litespeed, but I didn't care much to investigate that.

 

[Parminder Singh Chahal]

Thanks for your help I need to know more about caching procedures

I tried the zend opcode cache on a new server just to see what it does to Vbulletin but I am really not impressed. It might just be my own lack of understanding/knowledge but the end result was that APC is doing a lot better for me.

I am using php 5.3.26 and APC 3.1.13

And this is what it does to xenforo installed on this server : http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130818_AZ_GRP/

Also this is with apc.stat turned on as I have some wordpress running on the same server. I am not sure how would xenforo behave with apc.stat turned off but if it doesnt break then that would reduce the page load times even furthur.

Not bad right?

 

[Parminder Singh Chahal]

You could shave off another few ms off that with Varnish but I dont use that.

 

[Marcus]

You could shave off another few ms off that with Varnish but I dont use that.

These custom solutions save you some time but are too much hassle for me. I thought PHP with the integrated OP Cache from Zend should be a good team.

 

[Parminder Singh Chahal]

Zend opcache is not a replacement for APC. You would need something like a memcached to go with zend opcode cache. APC does a lot more then what zend opcode cache does because zend opcode is purely an opcode cache and nothing beyond that.

Zend opcode will use a lot more memory as compared to APC to achieve similar performance and also zend wont cache data which APC does for you.

 

[Parminder Singh Chahal]

Also zend will restart again and again after a certain time which APC doesnt have to. Zend opcode does not reuse the memory slots and keeps burning new land to cultivate Its still in its nomadic days. APC does a lot better job with very little. When zend opcode refreshes itself once the memory has exausted there are a few moments when your site's performance would take a hit. APC wont do that if you have piped logging turned on and dont need apache to restart every two hours for bandwidth logs (thats default for cpanel installs).

I would appreciate if someone could correct me if I am wrong.