[wp-hackers] 5 minutes to a faster blog

[Computer Guru]

What about eAccelerator? That's what I'm currently using and what everyone
is recommending out there.. Is it the same thing?

I can't remember, but once when googling I came across a link that said WP
was "purposely making it hard to use eAccelerator" [sic] and preferred APC.
Is it recommended to use APC with WP over eAccelerator?

Computer Guru
NeoSmart Technologies
http://neosmart.net/blog/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Matt Mullenweg
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:52 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] 5 minutes to a faster blog
> 
> With the following I regularly get sub 100 millisecond front-page
> generation time on photomatt.net, and lower on WP Pages. No caching
> plugins, no alternative front-ends that make me rewrite my themes and
> plugins, just plain WordPress.
> 
> 1. Use APC:
> 
> http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
> 
> APC can give you a 3x speedup in load times, instantly.
> 
> Tip: If you're on Litespeed, use this to save memory:
> 
> http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed_wiki:ph
> p:opcode_cache
> 
> (APC is bundled with Litespeed, btw.)
> 
> 2. Enable the query cache:
> 
> nano /etc/my.cnf
> 
> [mysqld]
> ...
> query_cache_size = 64M
> 
> /etc/init.d/mysql restart
> 
> This usually cuts in half most SQL times on busy sites, if not more.
> 
> 3. Swich your tables to InnoDB
> 
> Use phpMyAdmin > table > Operations to switch.
> 
> And add the following in your MySQL config file, adjust sizes as
> necessary for your memory:
> 
> # Make buffer_pool larger than the size of your DB, if possible
> innodb_buffer_pool_size=512M
> innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=20M
> innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0
> innodb_log_buffer_size=8M
> 
> Restart MySQL.
> 
> 4. Enable WP's built-in caching
> 
> define( 'ENABLE_CACHE', true ); // in wp-config.php
> 
> Unless you have slow HDs, like a NFS-based host like Dreamhost.
> 
> == More than 5 minutes, bonus ==
> 
> 5. Use WP 2.1
> 
> It's way faster.
> 
> --
> Matt Mullenweg
>   http://photomatt.net | http://wordpress.org
> http://automattic.com | http://akismet.com
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