[horde] Memcache issue

[Patrick De Zordo]

Am 22.05.2014 23:10, schrieb Erling Preben Hansen:
>  Citat af Administrator BCS <adje at bezoekerscentrumsonsbeek.nl>:
>
>> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>
>>> Citeren Administrator BCS <adje at bezoekerscentrumsonsbeek.nl>:
>>>
>>>> Got Horde is up and running but performance is not what it should be.
>>>> It seems I have a problem with memcache. Memcache is up and running, I
>>>> can connect to it with telnet localhost 11211, but the stats tells me
>>>> nothing is happening there.
>>>
>>> First question, how many concurrent users do you have? If there is a
>>> performance issue, installing memcache is not magically going to fix
>>> that for you. In you case it might help only if you have a problem with
>>> storing/retrieving session information, but that will happen only if
>>> you have many concurrent users and are starved on I/O. And even then
>>> using native memcache sessions might be preferred over using a
>>> distributed hashtable for caching session information. Enabling the
>>> latter may even worsen the problem.
>>
>> I have only a few users, max 25 but in most cases only 3 or 4 are active
>> simultaneously. The server is a brand new 3.2Ghz Xeon quadcore machine
>> with 4Gb RAM. Apart from the Horde/apache2/postfix/dovecot/clamav stuff
>> it's only running samba (only a few users as well). So it basically has
>> nothing to do, processor load is a few % at max during peak moments.
>>
>>>> When I enable Memcache server under Configuration>Horde>Distributed
>>>> Hash Table, my conf.php contains:
>>>>
>>>> $conf['sessionhandler']['type'] = 'Builtin';
>>>> $conf['sessionhandler']['hashtable'] = true;
>>>> ...
>>>> $conf['hashtable']['params']['hostspec'] = array('localhost');
>>>> $conf['hashtable']['params']['port'] = array('11211');
>>>> $conf['hashtable']['params']['weight'] = array();
>>>> $conf['hashtable']['params']['persistent'] = false;
>>>> $conf['hashtable']['params']['compression'] = false;
>>>> $conf['hashtable']['params']['large_items'] = true;
>>>> $conf['hashtable']['driver'] = 'Memcache';
>>>
>>> The above all looks good. Assuming that 'horde-memcache-stats' provide
>>> some sensible output, you can rule out that this is the problem.
>>
>> Output from horde-memcache-stats:
>> horde-memcache-stats
>>
>> Server: localhost:11211 (Version: 1.4.13 - 4 thread(s))
>>    Size:          0,00 MB (Max: 64,00 MB - 0% used)
>>    Items:         0 (Total: 0)
>>    Cache Ratio:   0 hits, 0 misses
>>    Connections:   5
>>    Traffic:       0,00 MB in, 0,00 MB out
>>
>> It will stay that way all day.
>>
>>>> As soon as I enable memcache this way, I see some "Invalid
>>>> application" errors in Horde and I get randomly "User is not
>>>> authorized for horde" messages in the Horde log, followed by logout.
>>>> No other error messages. I set memcached logging to -vv and see no
>>>> activity at all.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose I do something wrong in the Horde config but after a lot of
>>>> reading and searching I got a bit lost now. Any pointers in the right
>>>> direction welcome!
>>>
>>> What kind of performance issue do you have? And you do use an opcode
>>> cache, right?
>>
>> Performance is more or less acceptable, but not the response speed I
>> would expect based upon # of users, server load and server hardware. It
>> can take over 5 seconds to process a user login and switching between
>> let's say email and calendar also can take several seconds. Btw all
>> users are on a direct wired lan connection so that should not be a
>> bottleneck.
>>
>> About opcode caching: I have php5-memcache installed and phpinfo shows
>> it is enabled.
>>
>> Hope this helps you pointing out the problem. Could very well be that I
>> am looking in the wrong place, I am by no means an expert.
>>
>>>> Running latest Horde Groupware 5.1.4 on Ubuntu Server 12.04
>>>>
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>
> Hey
>
> I had the same isue after an update for some time ago.
> I newer got memcache to work satisfying with Hashtables.
> I don't know why, because since I read that Horde perhaps would depricate
> Memcache.
> I choose to find an other cache handler.
> After some research I chose APC. I know some is using Xcache too.
> I have been satisfied with APC since...

Agree with this,
using APC an OpCache (on Ubuntu APCu and OpCache) does a very good job!
Caching rate is up to 98%(!!).

>
> /erling at eph.dk