I moved my wordpress blog onto the server in my basement. The old server was a dual CPU PIII running at 993 Mhz with a gig of RAM.
The server in the basement is PII 450Mhz box with 256MB ram so it was chugging. I wanted to install the Alternative PHP Cache (APC) for performance reasons but when I ran the command to install it I got back that my version of php was not supported.
openSUSE 10.1 comes with php 5.1.2 so I ran the upgrade via yast (System Update). This had the fun effect of rendering my server un-bootable. The kernel package did not really install so last night I did some quick surgery and got the system booted. This afternoon I installed the DVD drive from my workstation and got the system properly updated.
APC still did not install. Suse and the phpize command (php5-devel package) is apparently broken. Fortunately this webpage has a list of additional repositories. I added LAB-Project since they maintain updated php5 packages including one for APC.
After I added the apc extension to the php5.ini file, the wordpress pages load almost twice as fast before. Mysql was updated to version 5 so that may have also been a factor.
judas_iscariote says:
additional php modules are now available in the SUSE Build service
including pecl modules zip,xdebug,runkit,imagick,filter,json..
http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/php/
we don’t build apc ATM but xcache [1] that is more stable under PHP5.
[1] http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/
July 16, 2006 — 6:06 pm
Jan Dembowski says:
Much thanks, I’ll check out xcache and those rpms.
So far APC has worked well for me but anything to speed up my old server will be welcomed.
July 16, 2006 — 9:51 pm