PHP with APC: Fatal errors: Cannot redeclare class

Question

Since I installed APC for PHP with PECL I get sometimes these errors: Cannot redeclare class xxx

xxx changes from time to time. I could disable APC but

Answer 1

This error happened when using Amazon's AWS SDK for PHP2 in a php script running under cron. One solution was to disable apc via -d apc.enabled=0 as shown below:

/usr/bin/php -d apc.enabled=0 /path/to/myshelljob.php

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