On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Rolf Lampa [RIL] rolf.lampa@rilnet.comwrote:
- $wgUseFileCache
File caching is definitely worth it as long as you have disk space; I just did some unscientific, unsophisticated testing, and fetching a page stored in the file cache was about 5 times faster than Memcached/eAccelerator. Of course, I'm sure there's also some overhead for writing the cached file when there's a file cache miss; the average benefit probably depends on whether the hits to your site are focused on a few articles (good) or roughly evenly distributed over all 800k pages (bad).
In any event, you still need the other cache types, since the file cache only works for anonymous users.
Which one seems to be preferred on my setup? Perhaps there's an overview
page about cache strategy (for my kind of server setup) which I have missed?
Just to be sure, did you look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache ?