Re: [PHP] Including files on NFS mount slow with APC enabled

I now notice that when I replace include_once with include the open()
call disappears. That's very nice, but why does include_once need to
open the file, even when apc.include_once_override is enabled? Is this a
bug?

On 08/16/2010 03:21 PM, Mark Hunting wrote:
> I am struggling with the performance of some websites that use a lot of
> includes (using include_once). The files are on a NFS mount (NFSv4), and
> I use APC to speed things up. APC has enough memory, and I see all
> included files are in the APC cache. apc.include_once_override is
> enabled. This is on a Ubuntu Linux 10.04 server.
>
> What surprises me is that using strace I see apache open()ing all
> included files. I would think this is not necessary as APC has these
> files in its cache. Opening a file takes 1-3 ms, the websites include
> 100-200 files, so this costs about half a second for each request. I
> tried a lot to prevent this but my options are exhausted. Is it normal
> that all these files are open()ed each time, and if so how can I speed
> up these includes?
>
> Part of the trace is below, look especially at the first line where 2ms
> are lost while this file is in the APC cache:
>
> open("/[removed]/library/Zend/Application.php", O_RDONLY) = 1440 <0.002035>
> fstat(1440, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=11365, ...}) = 0 <0.000137>
> fstat(1440, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=11365, ...}) = 0 <0.000124>
> fstat(1440, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=11365, ...}) = 0 <0.000133>
> mmap(NULL, 11365, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 1440, 0) = 0x7faf3f068000
> <0.000395>
> stat("/[removed]/library/Zend/Application.php", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755,
> st_size=11365, ...}) = 0 <0.000219>
> munmap(0x7faf3f068000, 11365)           = 0 <0.000151>
> close(1440)                             = 0 <0.000845>
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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