Re: [Phpwiki-talk] PHP persistent caching

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan Frankowski schrieb:
> I have a question for experienced PHP developers. There is a lot of 
> information I can imagine wanting to cache across sessions in PHP. For 
> example in WikiLens, a ratings database, or per-item statistics (# 
> ratings, averages, etc). This is stuff that will fit in-memory for the 
> forseeable future.
> 
> What's the best way to do that in PHP? I've looked at a couple of PEAR 
> modules (e.g., "Cache" included in PhpWiki), and they seem to be 
> file-based. This is astonishing to me. Clearly memory can be 1000 times 
> faster than disk (although there are usually memory-based disk caches, 
> too). Is it really best to use file-based caches? I thought about 
> writing a shared memory-based cache, and a colleague warned me away from 
> it, saying shared memory access in PHP is iffy.
> 
> Thoughts?

Are you aware about our max-size limitation of sessions
how we are using them?
If this could be solved we could put much more into regular sessions
and wouldn't need external libs, such as
   http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/439.html

I'm running a stable windows server with Turck MMCache for some time now 
using shmem for the internal bytecode.
   http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
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