RE: [PHP] Cache engines in a multi-tenant environment (a bit long)

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 14:52 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > My question then becomes the following: Is there a cache engine > > available which can store multiple (different) copies of a source file > > and serve them only to the appropriate request? Perhaps a better way > > to describe this would be a sort of "mapping" feature allowing > > per-directory control. I'm imagining a simple list of directories > > that instructs the cache engine to keep their caches separate. This might > > even be implemented by incorporating the directory name into the key > > used for lookups, but frankly I haven't spent much time looking at > > APC's code (nor have I looked at XCache's or eAccelerator's at all.) > > If the path to the source file differs then it shouldn't matter that the > source tree is a copy, for all intents and purposes, as far as an > accelerator is concerned, the sources are different. I've not liked APC > in the past (I don't remember exactly what the problem was) and > personally use eAccelerator. > > Cheers, > Rob. Rob, Thanks very much for your response. I was surprised at APC's behavior (thinking that files in different directories would be treated as different entities) but I couldn't explain the behavior I was seeing otherwise. However, that may be a function of APC specifically and not all PHP cache engines. I'll spend some time with eAccelerator and hopefully it will work as expected. Thanks again, Damon