Performance Issues - Stopgap Solution

[j0ney3]

Hello,

I've just tried this and it's dropped my page parse times substantially. I would recommend it to anyone who is suffering from a lack of resources.

Parse Time: 2.752 - Number of Queries: 417 - Query Time: 0.1318254763031
vs.
Parse Time: 0.278 - Number of Queries: 271 - Query Time: 0.082182839813233

Parse Time: 0.858 - Number of Queries: 329 - Query Time: 0.11570456744385
vs.
Parse Time: 0.265 - Number of Queries: 262 - Query Time: 0.072043928604126

I'm going to be applying this caching scheme to other areas of my cart, perhaps the category menu?

Thanks!

[Armen52]

I am desperately trying to use this as a solution to speed up my installation of ZenCart on Dreamhost, at the very least as a temporary workaround until I move the store to an approved and faster host.

I have finally gotten PEAR installed and the code above does not throw errors when trying to load the site; that is, until this morning it was not locating the Cache_Lite files to load up.

Now that the files can be found (had to modify the include_path), nothing seems to be any faster on the site. How can I know that the PEAR cache is being used and functioning properly? Is there any kind of test I can run or snippet of code that will produce some output to verify?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Armen

[Armen52]

As an update, I believe I have solved my problem and the caching is working for me now.

A note to folks who are doing this on a shared hosting account and following the original poster's instructions:

1) Make sure you use fully qualified path names wherever you need to provide a path, including in the PHP source code sample above.

2) Make sure that you have write permissions on the directory you're asking the Cache_Lite to cache into. In the sample code above the poster used /tmp/ which I didn't notice until tonight; as a shared hosting user I do not have write access to that folder on the server. Just change that path into a fully qualified one to some folder you create in your user folder. Something like ~/pear_tmp/ *without* the tilde.