On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Platonides<[email protected]> wrote:
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >>...
> >> MW shows: "Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache;
> >> cannot use these for object caching."
> >>
> >> Yes, I did restart httpd, no joy.
> >>
> >> There are number of occurrences of this issue in the IRC channel logs,
> but
> >> unfortunately the answers are difficult to find (if there are any).
> >> Google wasn't all that helpful just yet, so I figure to give this a
> shot.
> >> If anyone has any ideas at all, I would much appreciate some feedback.
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > eAccelerator caches php bytecode to speed its execution. The scripts
> > don't need to do anything special about it, so if you have eAccelerator
> > working, it will speed up MediaWiki even if MediaWiki is not aware of it.
> >
> > MediaWiki detects eAccelerator in order to use it for caching its own
> > data. That's the bit that is disabled if MediaWiki can't find it.
> > The issue is, mediawiki detects it by checking for the existance of
> > eaccelerator_get(). Since it would need to call that function in order
> > to use it for caching, it can't use it if php doesn't recognise that
> > function.
> > What's the output of var_dump(function_exists('eaccelerator_get')); on a
> > single php file?
> >
> > If it works there, there's something scary for mediawiki not detecting
> > it. If it reports the function doesn't exist, you should probably ask to
> > eAccelerator guys about it.
> >
>
> There's a bug (somewhere, too busy to look for it) about this issue.
> Something about eaccelerator being odd at times. I believe
> eaccelerator_get() is disabled by default as a result, IIRC.
>
> -Chad


Indeed,  var_dump(function_exists('eaccelerator_get')); returns false(bool)
so it appears to be disabled.
I'll keep an eye out for the bug/bugfix.  Thanks a lot for the clarification
guys, much appreciated.

Cheers,
Peter
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