[Webcom] mediawiki caching

[Christian Willmes]

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?

Thanks a lot for your help.

best regards,
Christian


[1] http://wiki.christian-willmes.de
[2] http://wiki.christian-willmes.de/index.php/Usermap_user_documentation
[3]
http://wiki.christian-willmes.de/index.php/Usermap_install#Mediawiki_Settings
[4]
http://swik.net/Michal-%C4%8Ciha%C5%99/blog.cihar.com/MediaWiki+caching/8hjv