If you have a small server for your own use (such as your personal page) or have a busy server servicing a lot of php requests you might find it a good idea to install some goodies in order to optimize the performance of your machine. A really good start might be installing the eAccelerator.

The eAccelerator extension caches compiled PHP scripts both in shared memory and on disk. By this it reduces the time needed for a server to service a php request for a page that has been already cached.

The latest version of eAccelerator is completely compatible with PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.2, so if you run Ubuntu 7.10 you should not experience any difficulties to install the php accelerator. Before you actually start with the installation you will need to install some packages in advance which are requested by the eAccelerator. This can be really accomplished by the following commands:

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