Do Php Accelerators Make Any Difference?

[mneylon]

Has anyone found that PHP accelerators make any difference?

Is the difference only noticeable on huge sites?

 

[bizhat]

I have used eAccelerator on some of my servers, it really helped in reducing server load.

 

[bizhat]

Some times eAccelerator create problems. I have a Linux server with eAccelerator working fine for months now.

I used to have eAccelerator on FreeBSD servers, but after a port upgrade, it start crashing Apache, and have removed it from the FreeBSD server. Yesterday, i have installed eAccelerator on a FreeBSD server, everything works fine, but today i find lot of error message in dmesg and i removed it from the server.

pid 83846 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17281 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17291 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17395 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17412 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17274 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17320 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17392 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17168 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4
pid 17334 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4

May be eAccelerator will not work well on FreeBSD.