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Re: [binarycloud-dev] Zend Cache and binarycloud = more power
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From: Alex B. <en...@tu...> - 2001-08-03 20:10:40
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> An alternative free caching engine which compares with Zend is APC > http://apc.communityconnect.com/ > > When Rasmus was last here he recommended it.. so I assume it's quite good. > :) > > * Blake yeah, I need to have a look at it.... I've heard it's quite good, though not as polished as Zend Cache. _a > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Aderhold [mailto:a.a...@th...] > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:37 AM > To: bin...@li... > Subject: [binarycloud-dev] Zend Cache and binarycloud = more power > > > Hi, > > I just benched binarycloud with/without ZendCache in comparison > with other scripts. And the results are surprising. Actually > with Zend Cache enabled I gain huge performance boosts for > sites without database access. Read on. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Setup > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I ran the benchmarks on my devel box at home (crappy old box, with > lots of stuff running (sshd, samba......)): > > * Intel Pentium 100 > * 128MB PC100 RAM > * 15GIG IBM HDD (IDE) > * Linux Mandrake 8 (Kernel 2.4.3) > * Apache 1.3.19 > * MySQL 3.23.36 > * PHP4.0.4pl1 (Zend Launch Pad Edition) > * ZendOptimizer 1.1.0 > * ZendCache 1.1.0 > > PHP compile options (launchpad - out of the box) > ./configure > --prefix=/Zend > --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs > --disable-debug > --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/Zend/etc > --without-db2 > --disable-sysvsem > --disable-sysvshm > --enable-xml > --enable-wddx > --with-mysql > --with-gd=shared,/usr/local/gd > --enable-gd-imgstrttf > --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/jpeg > --with-ttf=/usr/local/freetype > --with-t1lib=/usr/local/t1lib > --with-pgsql=shared,/usr/local/postgres > --with-imap=shared,/usr/local/imap > --with-ldap=shared,/usr/local/openldap > --with-ibm-db2=shared,/usr/local/db2' > --with-oci8=shared,/usr/local/oracle > > Zend Cache: > - validate timestamps is enabled (so chache checks everytime if > script changed, will perform even better if this is disabled in > production) > - reserved cache memory: 32Megs > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Benched scripts > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [1] Thyrell homepage www.thyrell.de/home/index.php > A very simple script with sessions (language-detect) and smarty as template > engine (smarty cache disabled). It is just one template with basic > replacing work to do for the tpl engine (no section loops etc). No Database > access. > > [2] Database script (huge) > Manage script for category administation (unlimited depth for cats). > Script is currently not r2 based [but r2 friendly and after the > entitity/database stuff is out, it will be ported:)]. MySQL Database, > about 20 entries for categories with a depth of 4. > > This script is part of a more complex community application administrtion > I'm currently working on. So much things are not optimized and It's > overloaded with includes that will be removed/optimized. Escpecially > the layout for the admin interface is very grapic intensive. So currently > the loading time is very long. > > Basically: > - Request class, session class of r2 > - Metabase > - Smarty > - PEAR for error handling (exceptions and formwarnings) > > - The "manager" responsible for db-access uses recrusion to look up > the categories (in this example depth = 4). It also currently > executes 2 queries per query (COUNT(*))(Few template chunks with > descent template logic (looping over arrays). > > - Advanced browser scripting (mostly IE5 behaviours). > > > [3] binarycloud: index.php > The current (2001-03-08, 10am GMT) cvs r2/binarycloud/build/en/index.php. > No changes. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The results > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I ran the benches doubletwice and the results differ slightly. > > > [1] Thyrell homepage > ------------------------- > With cache > Starting benchmark for http://dev.thyrell.corp/home/index.php (5 tries)... > Try 1: 6.68 req/s > Try 2: 6.90 req/s > Try 3: 6.82 req/s > Try 4: 6.79 req/s > Try 5: 6.77 req/s > 6.792 requests/second from 5 tries > > Without cache > Starting benchmark for http://dev.thyrell.corp/home/index.php (5 tries)... > Try 1: 0.98 req/s > Try 2: 0.60 req/s > Try 3: 0.94 req/s > Try 4: 0.86 req/s > Try 5: 0.60 req/s > 0.796 requests/second from 5 tries > > -> Speedup: 753.27% > > > [2] Database script (huge) > ------------------------------- > With cache > Starting benchmark for > http://pubtour.thyrell.corp/manage/common/categories/index.php (5 tries)... > Try 1: 0.48 req/s > Try 2: 0.87 req/s > Try 3: 0.36 req/s > Try 4: 0.28 req/s > Try 5: 0.28 req/s > 0.454 requests/second from 5 tries > > Without cache > Starting benchmark for > http://pubtour.thyrell.corp/manage/common/categories/index.php (5 tries)... > Try 1: 0.29 req/s > Try 2: 0.28 req/s > Try 3: 0.27 req/s > Try 4: 0.27 req/s > Try 5: 0.27 req/s > 0.276 requests/second from 5 tries > > -> Speedup: 64.49% > > > [3] binarycloud > ------------------ > With cache > Starting benchmark for http://bc.thyrell.corp/index.php (5 tries)... > Try 1: 5.54 req/s > Try 2: 4.58 req/s > Try 3: 4.55 req/s > Try 4: 4.54 req/s > Try 5: 4.12 req/s > 4.666 requests/second from 5 tries > > Without cache > Starting benchmark for http://bc.thyrell.corp/index.php (5 tries)... > Try 1: 1.21 req/s > Try 2: 2.10 req/s > Try 3: 1.98 req/s > Try 4: 1.04 req/s > Try 5: 1.04 req/s > 1.474 requests/second from 5 tries > > -> Speedup: 216.55% > > > > Resumee: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > IMHO, the ZendCache is VERY groovy :-) But it's also a expensive pice of > software. So for performance critical and larger business applications it > is a must, I think. The performance boosts for non-database sites is great. > And with the binarycloud cache the pages will become real speed monsters, > I guess :-) > > More detailed information is published in Zend and Techmetrix whitepapers. > You can download them from Zend.com or with some screenshots of the above > tested sites from: http://www.thyrell.de/info/downloads/cache_bench.zip. > Especially the behviour of database accesss with zend cache is interesting. > According to the paper is error free with cache (with their setup), but > there are errors without. > > Andi > > > _______________________________________________ > binarycloud-dev mailing list > bin...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/binarycloud-dev > > _______________________________________________ > binarycloud-dev mailing list > bin...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/binarycloud-dev > -- alex black, ceo en...@tu... the turing studio, inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 |
