[Webcom] mediawiki caching

[Frank Warmerdam]

Christian Willmes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> after some stress full weeks at university/work and a week of holidays
> :P, I found some energy to take care of the usermap installation again. :)
> 
> To install the improvements (you can see them on my wiki [1], [2]), I
> would need to disable the caching of the wiki (as described here [3]),
> without it the admin interface would not be updated and interaction as
> intendet would not work.
> I do not know how "bad" that would be for the performance of the wiki
> server.
> 
> Actually I found a statement that says, that MediawikiCaching slows
> things down [4]. But I'm not sure if one can trust this?
> 
> My question is, can somebody prove/disprove this post or better, does
> somebody have some experience with mediawiki caching in detail?
> 
> And if nobody can say, what about testing this option for maybe a day or
> two, and looking at the server load if it would be affordable to set the
> caching off?

Christian,

Mediawiki is on osgeo2, an otherwise almost completely unused machine.  I
cannot imagine turning off caching will result in much of a performance
problem on the machine.  Go ahead and try it if Martin expresses no
concerns.

Best regards,
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