PEAR Cache_Lite and Php Errors

I've started using PEAR Cache_Lite on some of the sites I'm working on a couple of months ago and it's great...but I ran into a bit of a problem :

My site code is something like this :

<?php 

require ("cache path....."); 
$options = array(
 'cacheDir'        =>'cache/',
 'writeControl'    => 'true',
 'readControl'     => 'true',
 'fileNameProtection' => false,  
 'readControlType' => 'md5'
);
$cache = new Cache_Lite_Output($options);
$cache->setLifeTime(36000);
$name="some name here";
if (!($cache->start($name,"cache")) ) { 

[B]error_reporting(0); [/B]

//my main site code here
.............

$cache->end();
}

?>

Code (markup):

My problem is that Cache_Lite saves a empty cache file when MySql/PHP fails and the script "dies" (and the output buffer is empty).

How can I prevent this from happening ?
Thanks .

 

Any reason why you opted for PEAR Cache_lite over opcode caches like eA, APC and xcache?

PS. I also tried it once but it was too much manual work to setup files (maybe there's an easier way)

 

I'm also using eAccelerator which helps a lot too ...but output caching(PEAR Cache_lite) really makes a big difference for my sites - no PHP(except the PEAR files that manage the cache) and no MySQL queries are executed for days on my server. Settings up Cache_Lite takes some time but if you get it working and auto refreshing parts of the cache on events like new posts, new comments , etc it really speeds up any site and the server load goes down which means lower hardware/hosting costs.

 

any ideas ?