Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache for PHP.

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Is there any side effect to use APC installed on shared hosts?

I'm using a shared host for a Drupal6 site. And this shared host has an option to use "APC". I just tried this option on a test site as it can be enabled just by one click on my account page of the ...
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What is the advantage of the APC module?

I had the APC PHP extension enabled it it seems to work well. I had 0.0% misses and not much fragmentation. Then I installed the APC module with: $conf['cache_backends'][] = ...
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How to optimize APC when running many sites with common codebase?

When having many (+100) drupal sites on a server with a common codebase, what is a good setup to achieve good APC performance? a) Increase APC memory to something really large (>10GB) b) Less sites ...
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Pages never cached, X-Drupal-Cache always MISS (using apc)

We run a Drupal 7 site where 99% of the traffic comes from anonymous users. Sometimes the traffic can spike very fast, so caching the barely changing content is essential for the performance. Checking ...
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Is there any gain using Memcached module when APC is running good on large Drupal 7 site (one server)

I am successfully using the APC Cache module on my prod website (single server). APC is performing good, caching is done very well. I wonder could I gain anything more by implementing Memcache. I ...
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Tables cached with APC and Memcached [closed]

I have a site running with Memcache and APC and I'd like to know what is the best choice to set the tables that will cache each one. Thanks
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BOA Aegir Octopus, APC disabled: Module's php files seem to be cached, changes are not reflected. Why?

I installed BOA on a VPS and everything seems quite alright except the fact that when I change a module's php file, the changes are not reflected in the website. When I change something in drupal's ...
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Suppressing APC cache warning messages in watchdog log

My Drupal-oriented shared webhost recently updated PHP and APC and turned on reporting APC warnings. Now my watchdog log has many, many entries of the form Warning: include() [function.include]: ...
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Drupal 6 APC with domain access module not working for (sub-)domains

I've recently enabled APC in my environment and using it with cache backport and APC beta 7.x-1.0beta3 which is a backported version for D6 modules respectively in site running drupal 6.22 which uses ...
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What is Drupal caching based on?

What does Drupal use for caching? Is this something like APC or memcache? Where does it store cache files?
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Node's cache isn't automatically cleared on update (intermittent problem)

Occasionally, about 1 out of 5 times, a node's cache isn't cleared when it is updated. Even going to view the revision that the update created or editing the node doesn't show the changes. Minimum ...
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Getting a better handle on APC Cache Bins / code for settings.php

I've got APC up and running on my VPS and have installed the APC module on my Drupal 7 site. I followed the documentation here and added this code to my settings.php file: $conf['cache_backends'] = ...
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Using Drupal 7 with APC, Varnish and Memcache, what bins to put in which cache?

I'm optimizing a Drupal 7 website and I have varnish, memcache and APC all installed and working with their individual Drupal 7 modules. In my settings.php I have the $conf options below. My question ...
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what are the implications of installing APC on a VPS running multiple Drupal sites?

I have a single VPS running a number of independent Drupal sites. What considerations do I need to make (if any) when installing APC?
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Will Drupal or PHP use APC if its installed on the server?

So I have AuthCache installed with XCache but I am not getting any noticeable speed. Im on D6 so its not possible to use APC? I mean if APC is installed on the server , will Drupal use it even if I ...
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How to set up APC on Drupal 7 with httpd + fastcgi?

Can you recommend how to set up APC for a site running Drupal 7 on apache2 with fastcgi ? I got to the point where apc.php shows only one file cached that is apc.php itself. I cannot see if APC cache ...
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Best APC settings to reduce page execution time

I have Drupal 7, apc with php-fpm and apache behind varnish and512 MB RAM. I measure page execution time with devel module. Database query time is low (62ms) compared to page execution time which is ...