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apc.shm_size now uses M/G

Published on March 19, 2013 23:35 Tags: , .

php5-fpm

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: apc.shm_size now uses M/G suffixes, please update your ini files

Solution is pretty simple change in your php.ini

from:

1

apc.shm_size=512

to

1

apc.shm_size=512M

You may need to specify “M” for Megabyte (MB) or “G” for Gigabyte(GB) to solve this issue.

APC – Alternative PHP Cache

Published on June 21, 2011 09:59 Tags: , , , , .

A PHP-accelerator is a PHP extension designed to improve the performance of software applications written in the PHP language.

Most PHP accelerators work by caching the compiled p-code (portable code) of PHP-Scripts to avoid the overhead of reparsing and recompiling source code on each request made for example by a stupid bot.

APC is free, open source framework that optimizes PHP intermediate code and caches data and compiled code from the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory. APC is quickly becoming the de-facto standard PHP caching mechanism as it will be included built-in to the core of PHP starting with PHP 6 < - Great news! Continue reading ‘APC – Alternative PHP Cache’