OT: why are LAMP sites slow?

[Paul Rubin]

Maciej Mróz <tego at adresu.nie.ma> writes:
> Mmcache (which is both optimizer and shared memory caching library for
> php) can do _miracles_. One of my company servers uses Apache
> 1.3/php/mmcache to serve about 100 GB of dynamic content a day (it
> could do more but website does not have enough visitors to stress it
> :) ).

Yeah, that's what Wikipedia is using, I'd forgotten its name.

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PHP_caching_and_optimization


> There's also memcached, much more of interest to readers of this list
> iirc it has Python API.

Oh cool, I should look at it.