PHP accelerators
 

hey there....

can someone guide me about PHP accelerators.

which PHP accelerators is best for vbulletin, that actually make forum faster.

Thanks

vBulletin support the following methods for caching datastore items:

• Filecache
• APC
• XCache
• Memcached

Additionally, APC and XCache are PHP accelerators. These are recommended. XCache has been shown to be ever so slightly faster than APC.

I think he means that xcache is slightly faster than APC. I prefer APC because the php group is more or less supports it.

I currently use Xcache, and have had no issues with it.

Whoops, my bad. Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. :p

Not only that, but there are rumors ir will be included as default with PHP in a future release.

PS More info on accelerators can be found in the vB.com Server config forum.

i have a active forum with lots of mods installed including couple of big one like postthanks, vbranks, advanced quick reply, aut thread tagger and more and more...

in that case which one you recommend Xchache or APC ?
i currently have zend optimizer....

thanks for ur reply....

Again, both XCache and APC are good choices. However, there are compatibility problems when using these with Zend Optimizer installed. It must be uninstalled if you want to use them.

eAccelerator is another PHP opcode cache/accelerator which is supported by vBulletin.
eAccelerator is the only which is compatible with Zend Optimizer.

eAccelerator was removed from the "available options" comment in config.php, due to a design issue of eAccelerator. However, the module remained inside class_datastore.php. I do not know if: a) the design flaw is fixed, or b) support has been "resumed".