Memcached and eAccelerator

[GoHighVoltage]

I configured memcached, and that made a great performance increase. Happy!!

My server has eAccelerator enabled. Does PHP automatically use it, (vbulletin), or do I have to do something to enable it?

[rajubd]

you have edit yout config.php file for make it working with vbulletin

[Zachery]

you have edit yout config.php file for make it working with vbulletin

To make what work? PHP uses eAccelerator, you can also store your datastore in eAcclerator, or memcached. Though memcached is really for multiple web-server enviroments, or if you're using it for other things.

[IBxAnders]

XCACHE and eAccel work on the server level, don't necessarily need to be config'ed in the vB instance. xCache is in php.ini I believe.

[DesignWerks]

A little confused now.

eAccel is specifically mentioned in the config file. What would be the correct configuration to use it? It is enabled and running on my server and I am installing a second forum on my server so need to (?) enable the prefix. Do I need to uncomment and change the "It is also necessary to specify the hostname or IP address and the port the server is listening on..." information?

// ****** DATASTORE CACHE CONFIGURATION *****
// Here you can configure different methods for caching datastore items.
// vB_Datastore_Filecache - to use includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php
// vB_Datastore_APC - to use APC
// vB_Datastore_XCache - to use XCache
// vB_Datastore_Memcached - to use a Memcache server, more configuration below
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_eAccelerator';

// ******** DATASTORE PREFIX ******
// If you are using a PHP Caching system (APC, XCache, eAccelerator) with more
// than one set of forums installed on your host, you *may* need to use a prefix
// so that they do not try to use the same variable within the cache.
// This works in a similar manner to the database table prefix.
$config['Datastore']['prefix'] = 'chtest';

// It is also necessary to specify the hostname or IP address and the port the server is listening on

/* $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_eAccelerator';
$i = 0;
// First Server
$i++;
$config['Misc']['memcacheserver'][$i] = '127.0.0.1';
$config['Misc']['memcacheport'][$i] = 11211;
$config['Misc']['memcachepersistent'][$i] = true;
$config['Misc']['memcacheweight'][$i] = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcachetimeout'][$i] = 1;
$config['Misc']['memcacheretry_interval'][$i] = 15;
*/

[melbo]

You can use memcached or eAccelerator for the vB datastore, as defined in your config.php. If you want to do further server level caching with eAccelerator/xCache/APC, etc, you need to define that in your server files. Where depends on your choice of opcode cacher.

[too_cool_3]

Instead of starting a new thread, I'll post here:

I've just enabled vB_Datastore_Filecache for my fresh vB 4.1.7 instal.
I know my host (URLJet) runs eAccelerator on their servers.
They do not run memcache on shared servers because its insecure, anyone could access anyone else's cached data.

Would it be a better choice to use eAccelerator as my datatstore, rather than vB_Datastore_Filecache?
How do I enable eAccelerator datastore to work in vBulletin?

[GoHighVoltage]

Do you know if your host is running Apache PHP handler as DSO or Suphp or FastCGI?

If they are using SUPHP, which is really popular, you cannot run eaccelerator.


You can use memcache though, which is much better then file cache.


Some people highly recommend xcache too.

[Zachery]

memcache is not "better" than xcache, eacclerator, or apc. They're all about equal as far as cacheing vBulletins datastore. By default vBulletin doesn't store a whole lot there. The filecache works fine and can itself be cached by xcache or apc.

[too_cool_3]

GoHighVoltage, my host stated they do not run memcache on shared servers because its insecure, anyone could access anyone else's cached data.

[too_cool_3]

Do you know if your host is running Apache PHP handler as DSO or Suphp or FastCGI?

If they are using SUPHP, which is really popular, you cannot run eaccelerator.

My host(URLJet) responded and said:
OpCode Cache – No, we run eAccelerator
The server is running Suphp

With this information, what is the best option for DATASTORE CACHE CONFIGURATION to implement on vB 4.1.7?

[Zachery]

Set it to the file cache. As I said, all of the caches are about equal.

[GoHighVoltage]

If they are using SUPHP, then it is impossible that eaccelerator is running. Eaccelerator is incompatible with SUPHP.

If you don't have memcache, then like Zach said, use filecache.

[AlpineZone]

is it safe to disable suphp if it's currently enabled?

[djbaxter]

is it safe to disable suphp if it's currently enabled?

No. You can't just disable it. You'll need to rebuild Apache/PHP.

If you think you absolutely must use an opcode cache, ask your host about installing nginx as a cache which can be used with suphp.