Installing APC and eAccelerator for PHP

Examples done on Ubuntu 9.04

Installing and Configuring APC:

#apt-get update
#apt-get install php5-dev
#apt-get install php-pear
#apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
#apt-get install make
#pecl install APC
Add to php.ini:
extension=apc.so
may need to disable zend optimizer (or install as zend optimizer extension)
;zend_extension=/dir/ZendOptimizer.so
Usage:
apc_store("my_key",$obj,3600);
$cached_obj=apc_fetch("my_key");

Installing and Configuring eAccelerator
#cd /tmp/
#wget http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.5.3/eaccelerator-0.9.5.3.tar.bz2
#tar xvjf eaccelerator-0.9.5.3.tar.bz2
#cd eaccelerator-0.9.5.3
#phpize
#./configure --with-eaccelerator-shared-memory
#make
#make install
#mkdir /var/cache/eaccelerator
#chmod 777 /var/cache/eaccelerator
add to php.ini:

;eAccelerator configuration
extension="eaccelerator.so"
eaccelerator.shm_size = "16"
eaccelerator.cache_dir = "/var/cache/eaccelerator"
eaccelerator.enable = "1"
eaccelerator.optimizer = "1"
eaccelerator.check_mtime = "1"
eaccelerator.debug = "0"
eaccelerator.filter = ""
eaccelerator.shm_max = "0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl = "0"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period = "0"
eaccelerator.shm_only = "0"
eaccelerator.compress = "1"
eaccelerator.compress_level = "9"

Usage:
eaccelerator_put("my_key",serialize($obj),3600);
$cached_obj=unserialize(eaccelerator_get("my_key"));

Restart apache2