Hi
What performance results do you have after using igbinary with Drupal?
https://github.com/igbinary/igbinary
Igbinary is a drop in replacement for the standard php serializer. Instead of the time and space consuming textual representation used by PHP's serialize, igbinary stores php data structures in a compact binary form. Memory savings are significant when using memcached, APCu, or similar memory based storages for serialized data. The typical reduction in storage requirements are around 50%. The exact percentage depends on your data.
https://github.com/igbinary/igbinary/blob/master/benchmark/comparisons.php
https://speakerdeck.com/mamoot/drupal-and-php-performances?slide=14
We tried it on several sites and we didn't see any real improvement.
Some details:
The sites have 100-400k nodes, all cached into Redis, Redis usage is 500MB-4 GB. We switched the serializer for Redis, like here https://speakerdeck.com/mamoot/drupal-and-php-performances?slide=15
PHP: 8.1
igbinary version 3.2.13
igbinary.compact_strings On On
Results
Of course the serialization depends on the data, but probably a high number of Drupal sites are for content.
Maybe other people can also share there results, maybe the comparison was true on PHP 7.X, but not anymore with the latest one.
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We run PHP 8.1. We switched a file based cache from serialize to igbinary and the file size was reduced by aprox. 90%. So this was a massive improvement.
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