
It is recommended to use APC on production servers and development machines for Magento optimization.

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The APC PHP module will not speed up the Magento itself, it eliminates the delay caused by having to parse Magento PHP files code on every HTTP request. But for Linux based operating systems, the configuration of APC procedure would be just a little bit different. As you get more and more traffic and HTTP requests, file system reading and writing will become slower. This is fine for small sites with low traffic. Magento stores its cache data in the file system by default.

You should be able to achieve a 50% increase in system capacity and your CPU will be 50% less busy.

It stores PHP pages in RAM and reduces hard disk activity. APC engine caches the compiled bytecode of PHP scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each request. APC (Alternative PHP cache) is a free opcode cache for PHP, which optimizes PHP intermediate code.
