At least the annotation/metadata/dql parser cache should be enabled: metadata_cache_driver: apc Else you are benchmarking the annotation and DQL parsers. Als

At least the annotation/metadata/dql parser cache should be enabled: metadata_cache_driver: apc Else you are benchmarking the annotation and DQL parsers. Also, for big PHP frameworks you have to make sure that APC's SHM size is large enough.