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Document using Matomo with OPcache and JIT compilation #17390

Open Findus23 opened 3 years ago

Findus23 commented 3 years ago

Using OPcache can speed up Matomo quite a bit as it avoids having to interpret the same PHP with every single page request. Especially now with PHP 8 and JIT compiling (which is implemented as a part of OPcache) it might bring even more of a performance benefit. There also should be no disadvantages (apart from a bit of memory usage from the cache) as Matomo already clears the cache on update/installs and for an application like Matomo everyone should be using opcache.validate_timestamps=1 which slows down the cache a bit, but should avoid ever serving something different than the PHP file (maybe check opcache.revalidate_freq).

So I think we should:

A bit more experimental, but especially with the JIT feature of PHP 8 it might also be interesting to look into opcache for php-cli. Generally most people recommend not using OPcache for php-cli as it is a in-memory cache which would mean that a new php-cli process would start with a fresh cache making it useless. But since PHP 7 one can alternatively use a file cache (opcache.file_cache) which would stay between calls and with the JIT compiler some hot loop during archiving might receive quite a bit of speedup. (I have not yet tested Matomo with JIT)

Slightly related: If someone wants to do testing with OPcache, I can recommend https://github.com/amnuts/opcache-gui which gives a nice overview over the current cache status

Findus23 commented 3 years ago

https://plugins.matomo.org/DiagnosticsExtended contains a system check urging people to enable OPcache and checks a few options for correctness.

tsteur commented 3 years ago

We can add a system check opcache but we won't add it for now for JIT as it takes too much time to performance test it etc.

When system check is executed on CLI then we don't expect opcache to be enabled as it's usually not recommended and won't really help with performace. Eg when archiving on the CLI most of the time will be spent in database and aggregating data in PHP.

tassoman commented 1 year ago

I've enabled OPCache in PHP8.1 caching a buffer of 256M. CPU time is only executing the huge queries don't fit the buffer

MatomoForumNotifications commented 1 year ago

This issue has been mentioned on Matomo forums. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.matomo.org/t/matomo-and-opcache-recommended-settings/50205/2