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)

[BeoRski]

Originally Posted by admin0

Hi,

My eaccelerator configure option is:

./configure --with-eaccelerator-content-caching --with-eaccelerator-sessions --with-eaccelerator-optimizer --with-eaccelerator-encoder

[root@root eaccelerator-0.9.5.3]# php -v
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Jul 16 2008 19:52:52)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.5.3, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
with Zend Extension Manager v1.2.2, Copyright (c) 2003-2007, by Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer v3.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007, by Zend Technologies

phpinfo();

eAccelerator
eAccelerator support enabled
Version 0.9.5.3
Caching Enabled true
Optimizer Enabled true
Memory Size 67,108,800 Bytes
Memory Available 34,307,856 Bytes
Memory Allocated 32,800,944 Bytes
Cached Scripts 146
Removed Scripts 0
Cached Keys 0


When I select eAccelerator, I get this:

vBulletin Message

vB Optimise: You have selected a cache method that vB Optimise has detected you cannot use, this may be because the extension required is either not installed or active on your server.

restarted httpd, rebooted .. same results .

What could be the issue?


Cheers,

You need --with-eaccelerator-shared-memory

[GoTTi]

prolly behind, but i wanna make sure i understand this mod:

once it is installed and enabled, this will cache the forums data or do threads and posts need to be viewed in order for it to be cached in the memory to be pulled faster @ a later time if viewed again?

im just a LITTLE bit confused as to what this does....

its suppose to speed the forum up how?

[eh69]

my admin tell me that eaccelerator is installed on server but i have info

vB Optimise: You have selected a cache method that vB Optimise has detected you cannot use, this may be because the extension required is either not installed or active on your server.

why?

[coolnikin]

Originally Posted by GoTTi

prolly behind, but i wanna make sure i understand this mod:

once it is installed and enabled, this will cache the forums data or do threads and posts need to be viewed in order for it to be cached in the memory to be pulled faster @ a later time if viewed again?

im just a LITTLE bit confused as to what this does....

its suppose to speed the forum up how?

it doesn't cache thread/post data

[mindhunter77]

Originally Posted by eh69

my admin tell me that eaccelerator is installed on server but i have info

why?

You need to enable

--with-eaccelerator-shared-memory

and if you use vBSEO you also need caching functions get and put

[admin0]

Originally Posted by BeoRski

You need --with-eaccelerator-shared-memory

Worked fine. Thanks.

A note to others, if you have enough ram, set the eaccelerator cache directory to /dev/shm - which is the memory.

[briansol]

Originally Posted by ChrisChristian

Bugs that I found:
vB Optimise: Cache Templates -> YES (when using xcache)
Don?t allow templates to be saved.

it should save. you just need to flush the cache so the new settings go into the cache.

i have no issues with this.

vB Optimise: Cache Forumhome WOL -> YES (when using eAccelerator) - but I think this occurs with any cache/opcode system
Adds a "," comma before the username in online list, when only 1 user is browsing the forums

confirmed, but i think caching the users online isn't a good idea anyway. You always want "you" to be first on the list IMO.



also, eAccelerator folks-- eaccelerator ships without the get and put methods enabled as a security feature.
YOU MUST ENABLE THESE FEATURES.
see:
http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/danny-bem...ccelerator-45/

[booktoweb]

do you have function can i put it in the end of specified cron i have to flush xcache automatically after cron finished ?

[tyranny]

This is the same thing that happened to me. I had to uninstall it to get the site to show again, otherwise when it was installed all pages, user end and admin side were blank. I am using php 5, too.

Would love to try it out if I could figure out the trouble.

Originally Posted by GamerGirl27

I've just had to disable this hack, after upgrading to 3.8.1 it was making our forumdisplay.php pages turn blank....

[Slayerz]

Originally Posted by tyranny

This is the same thing that happened to me. I had to uninstall it to get the site to show again, otherwise when it was installed all pages, user end and admin side were blank. I am using php 5, too.

Would love to try it out if I could figure out the trouble.

I have same problem.
Only once I deleted the files it still didn't show the site.
So I had to disable the plugin system and delete in manually.

Anyways you need to reconfigure your code.