vBulletin Modder Is Now Running Xcache.

Code Monkey · 01-02-2007, 11:44 PM

I dumped eAccelerator tonight and installed Xcache instead. I must say it seems much nicer. Please let me know if you find the pages loading differently. They seem snapier to me. I think this will fix the problem of white pages we have been getting.

jaygreentree · 01-03-2007, 01:03 PM

Seems to be much faster now CM. Nice work as always.

antisocial · 01-09-2007, 06:33 PM

Much faster here as well, good choice.

Vampyre · 01-21-2007, 07:55 AM

Pardon my ignorance on eAccellerator and Xcache technologies.
But is Xcache running for the entire site, including your very top level index page, or just your forum pages?

I'm at work, and my terminal only has Mozilla 1.2.1 and IE 6 installed.
Your site doesn't seem to be showing properly in Mozilla 1.2.1, as the entire page was shifted up, and I couldn't see the top portion of each page at all.
This includes your top level index page, and your forum registration pages.

Anyway, IE 6 seems unaffected.

Code Monkey · 01-21-2007, 08:04 AM

That has nothing to do with any server side caching and optimizer. That's is just a matter of a decrepid old browser that has been long ago replaced by Firefox. Just click that little icon on the right side column and get your FF at work.

Vampyre · 01-21-2007, 08:08 AM

OIC.

Thanks for that, Code Monkey.

I wanted to run FireFox at work many months ago, but I'm simply not given an Administrator privilege for my terminal, that's all.

Oh, well, back to the less preferred IE for now, I guess.

Eric · 01-21-2007, 11:35 AM

I know that feeling all to well at work, we are still using the IE6 early version, no extra's so if there is flash or any other fancy code... nothing... blank .. frustrating...
And if you go to the info tech's office, none is running IE... they all agree there is much better but rules say that safety blablablabla yeah except for them as usual

Vampyre · 01-21-2007, 11:55 AM

Talking about Flash, they had version 7 plug-in installed in Mozilla and no plug-in at all in IE.

I've just installed Syrus XL Media's Xeon MP3 Player, and signed up for Google Analytics yesterday.
I can't test MP3 player, or view Analytics reports at work at all, because of this.

Oh, well, it's not like I should be doing my own stuff at work, should I?

Eric · 01-21-2007, 01:22 PM

sshhhh, boss might be around the corner

mine is to far away so I'm pretty cool

Mike_W · 01-23-2007, 03:29 PM

Can you guys explain the benefits of xcache? Running vBSEO, I am always interested in anything that would be an improvement to my current configuration. Hearing your opinion of the benefits over eaccelerator would be great.

Code Monkey · 01-23-2007, 07:14 PM

The benefit over eacelerator is that it is actively developed. Ea dev has really slowed to a crawl and I have given up. Too many errors and such. The nice thing about xCache is that you can tell it how many proccesors you have. Say you asign 60 MB to cache and you have 4 processors. Then it will create 4 15 MB cache's and asign one to each processor.

G_Man · 01-23-2007, 07:43 PM

So where do you get this thing, how much, and how do you install it?

Code Monkey · 01-23-2007, 07:51 PM

You need to have your own server or a VPS.

G_Man · 01-23-2007, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

You need to have your own server or a VPS.

Doh!!!

You KNOW where my site is being hosted!!! LOL

Its probably in the same room as yours!!!

Code Monkey · 01-23-2007, 08:01 PM

Oh, yeah, I forgot. lol

You could send an email to support and ask them if they could install xcache on your VPS.

Mike_W · 01-24-2007, 07:45 AM

Interesting. I might have eaccerlerator removed from my server and have xcache installed in it's place.

Does it seem to be faster for you? or just less errors?

I have been experiencing occasional page hang ups and wonder if this might be my issue. My server is currently overkill compared to what I actually need, so I know it isn't a load issue.

Code Monkey · 01-24-2007, 08:02 AM

We were getting white pages like crazy. Keep in mind that I try to keep PHP and mysql on the latest release versions. xcache seems to be keeping up with that unlike eA. I commend the eA guys for trying to keep TurkMMCache alive but they seem to have too many other priorities.

If I remember right though, Ioncube running as a php.ini load needs to be first in php.ini.

Code Monkey · 01-24-2007, 08:03 AM

Oh, sorry, yes, it does seem to be faster. And it is reported that the heavier your site is the faster it is. Like I said, If I had more memory I would use more and it would cache everything.

G_Man · 02-02-2007, 10:03 PM

Just had this installed. After Seppuku is running like a champ, but Foto Fanatix is down for the count!!

Have also noticed that although After Seppuku is running fine the server loads are huge.

Code Monkey · 02-02-2007, 10:30 PM

I haven't had those issues. Did they install the optimizer?

G_Man · 02-02-2007, 10:51 PM

Seems that xcache doesn't play well with Zend Optimizer that I am using with my Gallery. John uninstalled xcache and my forums are both running fine again.