Re: [Case Closed - Idiot Found Behind Keyboard] Re: [PHP] APC - problems with CLI & odd return values from apc_clear_cache()

Ray Hauge wrote: > On Saturday 29 July 2006 05:47, Jochem Maas wrote: >> Jon Anderson wrote: >>> Just replying to the list on this one 'cause I'm pretty sure you're on >>> it. :-) >>> >>> AFAIK, with many caches the web server cache and CLI caches are >>> exclusive to each process. The APC manual seems to suggest that the CLI >>> cache is not connected to the web server cache: >>> >>> From: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.apc.php >>> >>> apc.enable_cli *integer* >>> >>> <http://ca.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php> >>> >>> Mostly for testing and debugging. Setting this enables APC for the >>> CLI version of PHP. Normally you wouldn't want to create, populate >>> and tear down the APC cache on every CLI request, but for various >>> test scenarios it is handy to be able to enable APC for the CLI >>> version of APC easily. >> thanks, you are right - what I thought had been working all this time had >> not, or atleast the code did work but it was clearing the cache belonging >> to the CLI, which was a pointless act! >> >> I'm an idiot. >> >> but wanting to clear the webservers APC cache from a cmdline script doesn't >> seem like such a stupid thing to want to do. but there is no nice way of >> doing it; so now I do this at the end of my cmdline script instead: >> >> exec('apachectl -k graceful'); >> >> which sucks in so many ways it hurts .... but it does clear the APC cache > > You could create a script that basically just does apc_clear_cache() et all. > and call it from lynx, curl, wget, etc. and throw that into a cron job. That > would technically get you to call the script from the cli, but it should > clear the webserver cache. I thought about that but it means dealing with my own login system and apart from having to figure that out, it's seems like a kludge ... in the end hitting apache with a 'graceful' was alot quicker to get running ;-) > > Ray >