Running 1.6.1.1 and it's slow! Switch handler from suPHP to DSO for APC to work.

[Billy]

Prestashop says my 1.5 gig of memory and 16 processor server run like a toaster.

 

16) Intel® Xeon® CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz

1.5 gigs ram

 

Man thats one fast toaster I have and has no problem running anything else. (except presta 1.6.1.1)

So I have been looking around and trying to figure out what to do. I haven't run DSO is so long that I have forgot all the issues I use to have with it. I haven't run DSO since back in the good old days with postnuke & xoops .  ( RIP... Adam Baum )

 

Now at this point I am forced to do something. It sucks that I half to revert to some ancient php handler to try and speed up my site. Here is what I know...

 

My PHP handler is suPHP, which doesn't support opcode caching. To install any opcode cache software like APC & Xcache on the server, you half to change PHP handler to DSO.

 

Since, the PHP handler is suPHP the file permission for the suPHP is "user:user" and in DSO "user:nobody". To mitigate this issue we need to enable mod_ruid on the server which will use the same permission that of suPHP.

 

This is before you can even install APC or Xcache...

 

Fun fun fun...

Edited September 1, 2015 by Billy (see edit history)