Zend Framework
Zend_Cache_Backend_File auto clean causing problems
by Steven Brown on Mar.19, 2009, under Zend Framework
I have been hunting high and low for an answer to what appeared to be a load problem on one of our sites.
Even though we have 4 dual Xeon Apache machines with 4GB RAM each, a content machine of the same spec (for serving files to the apache machines) and a dedicated MySQL machine, we were still having what looked like load spikes causing requests to exceed the Apache timeout. (continue reading…)