PHP Accelerator 1.2p4

[eva2000]

Version 1.2p4 is coming soon. This adds some minor features, offers significantly enhanced support and resiliency for sites that experience occasional server crashes, fixes some minor issues, and a bug that could cause problems for very heavily loaded sites. :cool: i can't wait :D

[Chris Schreiber]

Originally posted by eva2000
:cool: i can't wait :D

Same here... I had to disable phpa on one very heavy traffic server because of that one bug, but I'd love to be able to use it again as it helped speed things up and decrease the load :)

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Chris Schreiber


Same here... I had to disable phpa on one very heavy traffic server because of that one bug, but I'd love to be able to use it again as it helped speed things up and decrease the load :) my load at times has been reduced to 1/4 of what it was before PHP Accelerator - added i did tidy up some of my hacked additional template calls to use the templateused cache which sped things up as well :)

[Dave#]

With my new job I haven't had a chance to really test this engine yet- Does it wotk on all versions of PHP? ie the latest?

[UserName]

We had to disable the accelerator because of problems, so I am waiting very anxiously for the new version.

When it was working, it was working great!

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Dave#
With my new job I haven't had a chance to really test this engine yet- Does it wotk on all versions of PHP? ie the latest? check the download page on their site php 4.06, 4.1.0 and 4.07rc3 are supported and i'm using it with 4.1.2 and it's okay but 1.2p4 is the one i'm waiting for :)

[nuno]

hmmm
http://www.phpa.co.uk/releases/beta/php_accelerator-1.2p4_php-4.1.1_linux-glibc2.2.tgz :rolleyes:

[eva2000]

Originally posted by nuno
hmmm
http://www.phpa.co.uk/releases/beta/php_accelerator-1.2p4_php-4.1.1_linux-glibc2.2.tgz :rolleyes: hmm nothing on the site ??? anyway i have glibc 2.1.3 :rolleyes:

[nuno]

2.1.3 also there, still no annoucements :confused:
try this george
http://www.phpa.co.uk/releases/beta/php_accelerator-1.2p4_php-4.1.1_linux-glibc2.1.3.tgz

[etones]

Hi all, can this accelloroator be used with the Zend Optimizer?

Cheers

[nuno]

etones
http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/faq.php ;)

[Chris Schreiber]

Originally posted by etones
Hi all, can this accelloroator be used with the Zend Optimizer?


The PHP Accelerator has it's own Optimizer which you can enable/disable with a php.ini setting. Also, you'll get much, much better performance increases from using the PHP Accelerator over using the Zend Optimizer.

[Chris Schreiber]

Originally posted by nuno
hmmm
http://www.phpa.co.uk/releases/beta/php_accelerator-1.2p4_php-4.1.1_linux-glibc2.2.tgz :rolleyes:

These are still beta releases, so please use at your own risk.

[moggie]

1.2p4 will be *officially* out soon. I didn't expect the beta releases to be leaked so quickly - guess I should be flattered :)

I've been updating documentation, adding a few features that I was going to keep until 1.2.1, which will now be 1.3. In particular registration keys can also be set in a separate file, outside of the httpd.conf. There are a number of other changes. The main issue I have left with 1.2p4 is that if phpa breaks a lock on the shm cache, then it'll announce that it's disabled the shm cache and that it will release it. The cache will be only be recreated once every apache process has spotted that the cache needs recreating, and that may take a while. In the mean time each phpa instance will rely on the file cache for acceleration, and will still acquire the shm cache, spot that it's disabled, issue a message, and release the cache. So the apache log could get noisy. But then hopefully phpa won't crash when it has a lock on the cache.

But I want to get 1.2p4 finally out so may leave that issue as a shortcoming for now. If I can suppress the repeated messages then that would help at least.

I'll extend phpa_cache_admin so that it can report if the cache is disabled, and one workaround would be to run that from cron periodically, and issue a graceful restart if the shm cache was disabled.

[nuno]

now it's official.
Version 1.2p4 is now released for Linux. :)

[Chris Schreiber]

LOL I thought I would be the first to post it, but yes 1.2p4 is officially released and available now.

[nuno]

hey Chris congrats to your new vB status, vB.com Admin ;)

[eva2000]

yay.. :D