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WinCache – Preliminary tests look REALLY good

Those of you who follow me on twitter know that recently, I tweeted that I had installed Microsoft’s new PHP Opcode Cache, WinCache on a test machine and didn’t see much difference in performance. I then later tweeted that it was probably due to my inexperience in managing II7 and not necessarily a failing of WinCache. In between those two posts, I received 2 messages from people working with Microsoft, the most helpful being from Ruslan Yakushev. If you recognize that name it’s because he writes a lot of good stuff over at iis.net including the getting started guide for WinCache.

Ruslan picked up on the tweet and wrote me a very nice “How can I help” email. It started a conversation that eventually let me to the problem I was having, but I’ve only just now had a chance to finish my rudimentary testing. I can now say that yes, it was my configuration that I had wrong and once I took Ruslan’s advice, I am seeing a tremendous improvement.