PHP: XCache performance testing
by Alpha01
Aside APC, as far as I know XCache is the second most popular PHP caching optimizer. So I manually compiled and installed XCache on my www.rubyninja.org VM and configured the WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin to use the XCache optimizer and ran the same benchmarks test that I did when APC was enabled.
After a few tests, the total requests per second was around 24-25 seconds. Slightly slower than APC. However, unlike APC, I noticed that with XCache the overall server load was less (peak at about 3.3), in addition the I/O system activity also appeared to be less than with APC.
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 40.740110 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Non-2xx responses: 1000
Total transferred: 351000 bytes
HTML transferred: 0 bytes
Requests per second: 24.55 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 203.701 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 40.740 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 8.39 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 6 134.1 0 3000
Processing: 99 196 25.6 200 297
Waiting: 98 196 25.6 199 297
Total: 99 202 136.9 200 3209
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 200
66% 209
75% 214
80% 216
90% 222
95% 227
98% 234
99% 241
100% 3209 (longest request)
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