Things to tweak on your Magento installations gleaned from the Magento forums.

Magento ver. 1.0.19870.4

Install APC
# pecl install apc

edit php.ini to use apc extension

extension=apc.so

Switch mysql query caching on in my.cnf

query_cache_size=32M

uncomment sections of Magento’s .htaccess file to activate http compression (deflate).. starting here…

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

add the following to the global section of the /app/etc/local.xml

<cache>
<backend>apc</backend>
<prefix>alphanumeric</prefix>
</cache>

Disable these System -> Cache Management sections in Magento Admin

References:

http://www.crucialwebhost.com/blog/improving-magento-speed-and-performance-with-mysql-query-cache/


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