[BamaStangGuy]

Originally Posted by tmc

Yeah, I strongly recommend anyone to NOT install this.. It ended up breaking too many things. Notices, the ACP was screwy and even unusable (with ACP caching turned OFF), and it actually INCREASED server load while it was on because PHP or PHP as FastCGI take up more CPU to serve the massive amount of templates and phrases than MySQL does. There were blank automated threads and PMs from some of my modifications, and I can't even remember what else went wrong....

So I certainly don't recommend using a PHP cache or File Caching with this (still parses through PHP) as PHP has a hard enough time running vB on busy boards.

I may try Memcache soon on a live site, though, but it seemed slightly slower in testing. But I think it may bypass the high CPU issue with using PHP accelerators.. And I'd only use it if the ACP could actually start working again, and I wouldn't be receiving the dozen other errors I had from it.

It's kind of sad, actually, that this is being so blindly voted for in MOTM. Most of the voters don't even need it, or know how it works. Whereas I am a programmer myself and administer all my own servers and can see the havoc this wreaked in the limited time I allowed it to run on a live site.

Its working perfectly fine for me. No one is blindly voting it MotM. You won't notice a difference or you will notice an increase in load if your server is already overloaded because of PHP/Apache is working harder than MySQL. This mod takes the load OFF OF MYSQL and puts the templates either in memory or in a file. So, obviously, if MySQL isn't your weak spot and you install this you won't notice a difference.