Board Optimization - [DBTech] vB Optimise 2.0.1 (Lite)

vB Optimise Lite

The newly revamped vB Optimise was created for vBulletin 4, but has now been made compatible for vBulletin 3.8. In this release I have re-coded vB Optimise from the gound and focused stability over features, you'll notice Phrase Caching and vBAdvanced Integration have bit the dust, this is to maintain a sync state between this version and the vBulletin 4 release.

Professional version & feature list available @ www.DragonByte-Tech.com/forum
Priority support for Lite version is handled at the Developers Website.


What does it do?

vB Optimise is intended to optimise vBulletin software by integrating several PHP "cachers" and handling data before vBulletin. This works by encountering and handling data prior to vBulletin in order to skip the arbitary execution that would be more server intensive.

Real-Life Statistics

We've teamed up with some Big Forums to show you the impact of vB Optimise, you can view this public chart which shows both our statistics and theirs:

View Public vB Optimise Resource Statistics

Features

• Supported Extensions
  • APC
  • eAccelerator
  • Memcache
  • XCache
  • WinCache
  • Filecache
• Style Cacher
  Caches style data to globally reduce a query within all vBulletin forum-based pages.
• Template Cacher
  Caches template data to globally reduce a query within all vBulletin forum-based pages.
• Datastore Cacher
  Forces custom datastore items from modifications (including those from vB's blogs) to use your configured Datastore Cache method instead of being forced into the database. This reduces page queries by where affected.
• vB CMS Template Caching
  (Automatic) Corrects many uncached templates within vB CMS to reduce upto 20+ queries on CMS pages (number varies based on content).
• Optimal Settings Check
  Provides a quick interface to identify possible settings which can be changed on your forum for further optimisation.
• Self-System Tester
  Provides a relatively straight-forward system check to ensure your vB Optimise installation works fully.
• Automatic Cache Flusher
  Automatically flushes cache within the Admin CP based on specific triggers to make sure content does not remain stale on your forum.
• XCache Authentification
  Supports XCache Admin Authentification by allowing you specify the username/password in a configuration if needs be.

Features - Pro

• Notices Cacher
  Caches users dismissed notices to reduce a near-global query within all vBulletin forum-based pages.
• Showgroups Cacher
  Caches the showgroups query which becomes more intensive as your user-base grows.
• Forum Display Query Enhancement
  Enhances a stock vBulletin query within Forum Display to speed up the page.
• Forum Home WOL Cache
  Caches Forum Home "Who's Online" to remove an intensive query and allow larger sites to display this data without impact.
• vB Cache Override (Feature not available on vBulletin 3)
  Ability to override vBulletins new built-in database cacher for the CMS / Forum Sidebar Blocks to remove anything from 1 to 20+ queries based on your content.
• Full Guest Caching
  Ability to cache entire pages and serve them saving not only hundreds of queries but upto 90% of CPU processing towards Guests.
• Statistical Resource Savings
  Ability to see just exactly how many queries per day vB Optimise has saved your database. You'll be surprised at the numbers.
• Forum Resource Statistic
  Shows off vB Optimise resource saving statistics directly within forumhome statistics.
• ....and more!

Release Notes

If you've used vB Optimise before you'll be aware the previous version had phrase caching, however this caused complications with the way phrases are used within vBulletin so it has not been ported over at this time.


Available Translations
v1.6.0 French - Thanks to finereader

Change Log

[>>] Version 2.0.1
New launch for vB 3.8

[>>] Version 1.6.1
Automatic Cache Flusher has additional parameters to make sure no data is stale
Resolved Bug: Potential PHP error when using eAccelerator which cannot flush within Admin CP on certain actions

[>>] Version 1.6.0
New OpCode Cacher Support: WinCache

[>>] Version 1.5.0
Resolved Bug: Style cache may have fetched ID 0 instead of correct file
Resolved Bug: Filecache permissions may not have worked
Optimisation: Re-wrote some base code to enhance operations.

[>>] Version 1.0.1
Added XCache Authentification Support
Added Filecache Support

Support

Priority support will be handled at DBTech.

FAQ

Q: I have WinCache installed, but vB Optimise tells me it's not?
A: WinCache only introduced OpCode support in version 1.1, if you're using version 1.0.x you will need to upgrade.

Q: I'm using the XCache method, flushing doesn't work?
A: If you have XCache authentification, turn the admin option on within vB Optimise Settings, then edit ./vboptimise/config.php and specify your XCache username/password. Alternatively you can disable XCache authentification within php.ini:

xcache.admin.enable_auth = Off

Q: I have eAccelerator installed, but vB Optimise tells me it's not?
A: eAccelerator does not provide the caching extension by default, you will need to recompile PHP with additional flags. For more information read eAccelerator documentation located here: http://eaccelerator.net/wiki/CompileConfiguration (Specifically look at: with-eaccelerator-shared-memory)

[kingvillain]

I am impressed, after configuring and activating this mod my forum is lightning fast, thanyou very much

[TCB]

Would it be possible to add vboptimise function to the video directory remixed mod ?

[Vaupell]

hmm it wont update links etc after installed on vba.. :down:

take the lottery module as an eksample, enabled vbo 1.3.2 in it
and set the timer to 60, howewer ewen now more than 12 hours
after nochange to the module, ewen though i changede the module links.

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But on the up side :up:

This mod have improved loading speed from 5-10sec ish to 1-5sec and on
googlechrome browser instant ewen though it has never seen the page before.

Thank you :up: great for vbulletin, just have a few grrr on vba.. highly recomended mod!

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

The recommended values for eaccelerator configuration (which, btw has worked for years without fail):

  ./configure \
  --enable-eaccelerator=shared \
  --with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config

Changes insisted by your code (and ONLY your code, btw):

  ./configure \
  --enable-eaccelerator=shared \
  --with-eaccelerator-shared-memory \ 
  --with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config

Again, this should be done properly, so that individuals DON'T have to recompile and reconfigure eacc, especially when they can't.

Where exactly are these configuration options set or changed?

I'm having the same issue: eAccelerator is installed and working (as far as I know). phpinfo shows:

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
    with eAccelerator v0.9.5.3, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
    with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.1.33, Copyright (c) 2002-2007, by ionCube Ltd., and
    with Zend Extension Manager v1.2.2, Copyright (c) 2003-2007, by Zend Technologies
    with Zend Optimizer v3.3.3, Copyright (c) 1998-2007, by Zend Technologies

eAccelerator support enabled 
Version  0.9.5.3  
Caching Enabled  true  
Optimizer Enabled  true  
Memory Size  16,777,152 Bytes  
Memory Available  936 Bytes  
Memory Allocated  16,776,216 Bytes  
Cached Scripts  110  
Removed Scripts  0  
Cached Keys  0

Directive Local Value Master Value 
eaccelerator.allowed_admin_path no value no value 
eaccelerator.cache_dir /tmp/eaccelerator /tmp/eaccelerator 
eaccelerator.check_mtime 1 1 
eaccelerator.compress 1 1 
eaccelerator.compress_level 9 9 
eaccelerator.debug 0 0 
eaccelerator.enable 1 1 
eaccelerator.filter no value no value 
eaccelerator.log_file no value no value 
eaccelerator.name_space no value no value 
eaccelerator.optimizer 1 1 
eaccelerator.shm_max 0 0 
eaccelerator.shm_only 0 0 
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period 0 0 
eaccelerator.shm_size 16 16 
eaccelerator.shm_ttl 0 0

[TheGreatTK]

Holy crap, works with 3.7, and trimmed a frankly ridiculous amount of space off of my DB. Things do seem a wee bit snappier!

Installed and voted for MOTM - good luck

[djbaxter]

Among other problems, when enabled it sent out emails from my forum from "-".

Nice idea but this clearly still needs some work.

[KevinL]

You should really read the thread. If you don't cache the phrases the emails are fine.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Among other problems, when enabled it sent out emails from my forum from "-".

Nice idea but this clearly still needs some work.

Originally Posted by KevinL

You should really read the thread. If you don't cache the phrases the emails are fine.

And you shouldn't make assumptions, especially when they're pathetically wrong. I have read all 50 pages of this thread. Did you miss the part above where I said "among other problems"? I mentioned the email one only because I don't recall seeing that specific one mentioned.

If you had read the thread, you would have seen a long list of fairly serious issues with this add-on and I encountered some of those. I've now uininstalled it but I'll keep an eye on future developments.

I'm not knocking the coder. I'm simply pointing out that this needs a lot of work before I could recommend it to anyone for a live installation.

[KevinL]

I have read every page and haven't had an issue yet.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by KevinL

I have read every page and haven't had an issue yet.

Well good for you. That's not a whole lot of comfort for those of us who've had problems with it, though, is it?