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I'm currently running php5 with APC, the latter with default configuration. However after setting up munin to monitor APC, I'm surprised by the results:

  • apc.shm_size: 30
  • apc.gc_ttl: 3600
  • apc.ttl: 0
  • Used: 14MB
  • Request rate: 100 requests/second
  • Fragmentation: 0
  • Hit ratio: 80% (dropping to 0 a few times per hour)

So the obvious question: how can I adapt the configuration to achieve a higher hitrate. I find it very strange that the available memory is not fully used which the hitratio is still below what I would expect.

Thank for any hints!

Steven De Groote
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It turns out that my problem was caused by running PHP in CGI/FastCGI mode. PHP Processes spawned by this do not share the APC cache, and as such my monitoring results are completely incorrect.

To resolve this, I have configured my apache to start working with FPM/FastCGI for php using mod_fastcgi. PHP's CPU usage has dropped impressively and caching is now done properly!

Steven De Groote
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