By yannisc on

Hello!

Is it only me or it's true that Drupal 7.2 without APC is as fast if not faster than Drupal 7.0 with APC?

Some benchmarking that I did on my sites show this. Am I missing something? Or is it so?

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Road Runner’s picture

Road Runner commented

What the hell does APC stand for?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php

as for the op-- you're probably better off asking in irc.

Road Runner’s picture

Road Runner commented

Aha Alternative PHP Cache (APC) - now that's better.

inventlogic’s picture

inventlogic commented

I have tried all the opcode cache options with Drupal 7.12 (xcache or apc or eaccelerator)

Drupal 7.12 without any of the 3 is faster.

I am very confused by this.

Can anyone provide technical reasons why?

bojanz’s picture

bojanz commented

Drupal 7 has received a constant stream of performance improvements since the first release (7.0).
Some level of performance gain is to be expected.

john_b’s picture

john_b commented

Depends on server setup and use case. And on what you mean by faster. Faster impressionistically? When tested with Apache Bench? Execution time of single page generation?

For possible specific reasons why APC might slow you down, answers see posts by Khalid (his blog is always worth reading on Drupal performance).
http://2bits.com/articles/high-php-execution-times-drupal-and-tuning-apc...
http://2bits.com/articles/importance-tuning-apc-sites-high-number-drupal...

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