Re: [PHP] Problems with APC, possible cache-corruption?
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, James McLean james.mcl...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Nathan Nobbequickshif...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:56 PM, James McLean james.mcl...@gmail.com wrote: did you take a look at the size of the cache you created ? Yes. Tried multiple segments and single, with cache size values between 128mb and 256mb. Also tried with stat on and off. also, arent you planning to cache php opcodes, so if you load up the page, index.html, i would expect to see a bunch of php files mentioned in the apc cache.. Well, index.html wouldn't be cached because it's not parsed by the PHP engine. But yes, if it were index.php for example each compiled PHP file is then cached in the opcode cache - include files and everything. This is how it works on every other APC installation i've tried :) This installation is not doing that, even though this is the default behaviour. if apc has support for output caching, ive not yet used it so im not sure how much i could help there (sort of sounds like youre shooting for output caching the way you describe things above). No, i'm not looking for output caching. Apologies if my original email was poorly worded. maybe you could dump out your ini settings for apc and share them here? No need. they're all default as reccomended by PHP and APC. hmm, 2 other thoughts i have.. . long shot, but do you have apc.php installed on a diff domain than the moodle app (not sure but i suspect apc.php only shows cached values for the domain in which its currently running (i know this is something eaccelerator does). . as a test, perhaps setup a simple test site, w/ 2 files, apc.php and one index.php file on this rhel box. if things are working (index.php cached w/ apc.php), it would seem something goofy is going on indside the moodle app. -nathan
Re: [PHP] Problems with APC, possible cache-corruption?
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Nathan Nobbequickshif...@gmail.com wrote: hmm, 2 other thoughts i have.. . long shot, but do you have apc.php installed on a diff domain than the moodle app (not sure but i suspect apc.php only shows cached values for the domain in which its currently running (i know this is something eaccelerator does). No. Same domain. . as a test, perhaps setup a simple test site, w/ 2 files, apc.php and one index.php file on this rhel box. if things are working (index.php cached w/ apc.php), it would seem something goofy is going on indside the moodle app. The RHEL box works flawlessly, as has almost every other APC install i've ever done. I simply used it as an example that Moodle likely wasn't at fault, and I have since further proved this by grepping the source - it isn't setting any of it's own apc filters as suggested before. On the APC install that is not working correctly, when I switch between my info.php and apc.php files - the counter on the cached file (apc.php) resets, and info.php is not cached. That was all outlined in the original email. I guess this is not a common issue, no one seems to have experienced it before.. Cheers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Problems with APC, possible cache-corruption?
(Resend from around 1 week ago, because of no responses) Hi All, Over the weekend I setup a test of APC intending to benchmark a Moodle installation with various APC settings to see how well I could get it to perform. I successfully installed Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 under Apache 2.2.3 (installed via apt on Ubuntu 9.04), and with PHP 5.2.9 compiled from source. I should note, that Ubuntu had an older version of PHP installed from apt with Suhosin hardened PHP built in. Moodle 2.0 required at least PHP 5.2.8, so I uninstalled the original PHP module before compiling and installing the 5.2.9. No issues there; PHP worked well and performance was (mostly) acceptable. Progressed onto installing APC, firstly by downloading the APC 3.1.2 source from PECL and following the usual 'phpize, configure, make, make install' process which worked as expected, stop and start Apache and APC was present in my phpinfo();. I started with the reccomended PHP config exept with error_display turned on and E_ALL | E_STRICT enabled, and also the reccomended APC config also. I copied the 'apc.php' from the source tree to my webroot and changed the password as suggested. The issue arose when I attempted to benchmark my Moodle install with 'ab' (I realise it only downloads the single page, but it's good enough for what I need for now though) and the result was no different to before I had installed APC. View the apc.php page, and the only page cached is apc.php itself.. Certainly not what I've witnessed in the past. Then what would happen was if I viewed my seperate info.php page containing simply the opening PHP tag and a single line with phpinfo(); in the file - the cache would appear to reset, and it would firstly not load the info.php into the cache, it would reset the counter on the apc.php file back to 0. Through all of this, there was no errors displayed on the screen and no errors listed in the Apache error log either. Increased the Apache log level up to Debug, and no related information was displayed. Moodle itself worked as expected with no errors, and on a seperate RHEL installation I have Moodle working with APC and it is caching all it's files as expected. At this point, I thought it may be an issue with the module I compiled myself. I backed up the module, and allowed PECL to install the module, it installed 3.0.19. Restarted Apache and verified the version was as PECL had built and installed. This had no effect, and yeilded the same behaviour. I'm stumped as to what the issue could be, however I did see this issue of APC not caching files on an installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the past - however at the time we assumed it was an issue with the framework we were using and due to time constraints simply ran without APC and didn't investigate further. Has anyone seen this issue in the past and perhaps even rectified it? Any information would be appreciated. Cheers, James -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Problems with APC, possible cache-corruption?
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:56 PM, James McLean james.mcl...@gmail.comwrote: (Resend from around 1 week ago, because of no responses) Hi All, Over the weekend I setup a test of APC intending to benchmark a Moodle installation with various APC settings to see how well I could get it to perform. I successfully installed Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 under Apache 2.2.3 (installed via apt on Ubuntu 9.04), and with PHP 5.2.9 compiled from source. I should note, that Ubuntu had an older version of PHP installed from apt with Suhosin hardened PHP built in. Moodle 2.0 required at least PHP 5.2.8, so I uninstalled the original PHP module before compiling and installing the 5.2.9. No issues there; PHP worked well and performance was (mostly) acceptable. Progressed onto installing APC, firstly by downloading the APC 3.1.2 source from PECL and following the usual 'phpize, configure, make, make install' process which worked as expected, stop and start Apache and APC was present in my phpinfo();. I started with the reccomended PHP config exept with error_display turned on and E_ALL | E_STRICT enabled, and also the reccomended APC config also. I copied the 'apc.php' from the source tree to my webroot and changed the password as suggested. The issue arose when I attempted to benchmark my Moodle install with 'ab' (I realise it only downloads the single page, but it's good enough for what I need for now though) and the result was no different to before I had installed APC. View the apc.php page, and the only page cached is apc.php itself.. Certainly not what I've witnessed in the past. Then what would happen was if I viewed my seperate info.php page containing simply the opening PHP tag and a single line with phpinfo(); in the file - the cache would appear to reset, and it would firstly not load the info.php into the cache, it would reset the counter on the apc.php file back to 0. Through all of this, there was no errors displayed on the screen and no errors listed in the Apache error log either. Increased the Apache log level up to Debug, and no related information was displayed. Moodle itself worked as expected with no errors, and on a seperate RHEL installation I have Moodle working with APC and it is caching all it's files as expected. At this point, I thought it may be an issue with the module I compiled myself. I backed up the module, and allowed PECL to install the module, it installed 3.0.19. Restarted Apache and verified the version was as PECL had built and installed. This had no effect, and yeilded the same behaviour. I'm stumped as to what the issue could be, however I did see this issue of APC not caching files on an installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the past - however at the time we assumed it was an issue with the framework we were using and due to time constraints simply ran without APC and didn't investigate further. Has anyone seen this issue in the past and perhaps even rectified it? Any information would be appreciated. did you take a look at the size of the cache you created ? also, arent you planning to cache php opcodes, so if you load up the page, index.html, i would expect to see a bunch of php files mentioned in the apc cache.. if apc has support for output caching, ive not yet used it so im not sure how much i could help there (sort of sounds like youre shooting for output caching the way you describe things above). maybe you could dump out your ini settings for apc and share them here? -nathan
Re: [PHP] Problems with APC, possible cache-corruption?
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Nathan Nobbequickshif...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:56 PM, James McLean james.mcl...@gmail.com wrote: did you take a look at the size of the cache you created ? Yes. Tried multiple segments and single, with cache size values between 128mb and 256mb. Also tried with stat on and off. also, arent you planning to cache php opcodes, so if you load up the page, index.html, i would expect to see a bunch of php files mentioned in the apc cache.. Well, index.html wouldn't be cached because it's not parsed by the PHP engine. But yes, if it were index.php for example each compiled PHP file is then cached in the opcode cache - include files and everything. This is how it works on every other APC installation i've tried :) This installation is not doing that, even though this is the default behaviour. if apc has support for output caching, ive not yet used it so im not sure how much i could help there (sort of sounds like youre shooting for output caching the way you describe things above). No, i'm not looking for output caching. Apologies if my original email was poorly worded. maybe you could dump out your ini settings for apc and share them here? No need. they're all default as reccomended by PHP and APC. Thanks, James -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Problems with APC, possible cache-corruption?
Can you do a phpinfo(); and tell us the value of the setting apc.filters (or every apc.* if you can)? Just curious, but I've seen apps set that setting to avoid APC opcode caching. Jonathan On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:56 PM, James McLeanjames.mcl...@gmail.com wrote: (Resend from around 1 week ago, because of no responses) Hi All, Over the weekend I setup a test of APC intending to benchmark a Moodle installation with various APC settings to see how well I could get it to perform. I successfully installed Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 under Apache 2.2.3 (installed via apt on Ubuntu 9.04), and with PHP 5.2.9 compiled from source. I should note, that Ubuntu had an older version of PHP installed from apt with Suhosin hardened PHP built in. Moodle 2.0 required at least PHP 5.2.8, so I uninstalled the original PHP module before compiling and installing the 5.2.9. No issues there; PHP worked well and performance was (mostly) acceptable. Progressed onto installing APC, firstly by downloading the APC 3.1.2 source from PECL and following the usual 'phpize, configure, make, make install' process which worked as expected, stop and start Apache and APC was present in my phpinfo();. I started with the reccomended PHP config exept with error_display turned on and E_ALL | E_STRICT enabled, and also the reccomended APC config also. I copied the 'apc.php' from the source tree to my webroot and changed the password as suggested. The issue arose when I attempted to benchmark my Moodle install with 'ab' (I realise it only downloads the single page, but it's good enough for what I need for now though) and the result was no different to before I had installed APC. View the apc.php page, and the only page cached is apc.php itself.. Certainly not what I've witnessed in the past. Then what would happen was if I viewed my seperate info.php page containing simply the opening PHP tag and a single line with phpinfo(); in the file - the cache would appear to reset, and it would firstly not load the info.php into the cache, it would reset the counter on the apc.php file back to 0. Through all of this, there was no errors displayed on the screen and no errors listed in the Apache error log either. Increased the Apache log level up to Debug, and no related information was displayed. Moodle itself worked as expected with no errors, and on a seperate RHEL installation I have Moodle working with APC and it is caching all it's files as expected. At this point, I thought it may be an issue with the module I compiled myself. I backed up the module, and allowed PECL to install the module, it installed 3.0.19. Restarted Apache and verified the version was as PECL had built and installed. This had no effect, and yeilded the same behaviour. I'm stumped as to what the issue could be, however I did see this issue of APC not caching files on an installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the past - however at the time we assumed it was an issue with the framework we were using and due to time constraints simply ran without APC and didn't investigate further. Has anyone seen this issue in the past and perhaps even rectified it? Any information would be appreciated. Cheers, James -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Problems with APC, possible cache-corruption?
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Jonathan Tapicertapi...@gmail.com wrote: Can you do a phpinfo(); and tell us the value of the setting apc.filters (or every apc.* if you can)? Just curious, but I've seen apps set that setting to avoid APC opcode caching. Certainly, however it will have to wait until I am home and have access to that machine again. Though I'm not sure that would be the case as APC is caching all Moodle files on my development server here. That being said I'll grep the codebase anyway to see if it's setting any filters. Thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
