XCache on OpenBSD

  2011-07-12      194 words, 1 minutes

• apache
• openbsd
• php
• xcache

On my way for constant Web site rendering improvement, I decided to give XCache a try. I’ve been using eaccelerator for a long time and found it very efficient. But I never looked at the Google WebMaster Tools metrics before :)

On the Web server:

• Install the XCache package:

# pkg_add xcache
# ln -fs /var/www/conf/php5.sample/xcache.ini /var/www/conf/php5/xcache.ini

• Disable the eaccelerator module:

# rm /var/www/conf/php5/eaccelerator.ini

• Restart the Apache dæmon:

# apachectl stop

• Check the logs to ensure everything when right.

You may use the default configuration. I did a few modifications to mine:

xcache.size = 64M
xcache.count = 2

I tried enabling the xcache.optimizer but it didn’t seemed to do any goods to the rendering speed.

With eaccelerator, I got:

Requests per second:    0.42 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       11899.769 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       2379.954 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          12.38 [Kbytes/sec] received

With XCache, I got:

Requests per second:    0.44 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       11270.220 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       2254.044 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          13.16 [Kbytes/sec] received

I’ll check Google’s bot statistics later on to see if the optimization works nice. Or not :p