[Mediawiki-l] Activating Turck MMCache after installation

[MHart]

Separate database - same machine

- MHart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Liontooth" <liontooth at cogweb.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Activating Turck MMCache after installation


> MHart wrote:
>
>> I enable mmcache on all sites - I have about 5 running on one server,
>> all with mmcache enabled, without any problems. I did not, however,
>> attempt to go back to sites that were previously setup and get them
>> running with mmcache, rather I re-setup the scripts in a different
>> folder and updated the server settings.
>>
>> - MHart
>
> Are you using a separate database for each wiki? If you are, you
> shouldn't be running into the problem I ran into (if I understand
> Carlton right).
>
> If you're using the same database, that would be interesting.
>
> Dave
>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlton B" <carltonb at mindspring.com>
>> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
>> <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 4:55 AM
>> Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Activating Turck MMCache after installation
>>
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
>>>> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of David Liontooth
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:44 PM
>>>> To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
>>>> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Activating Turck MMCache after installation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I set up my first MediaWiki (nice work, btw!), I got "Turck
>>>> MMCache
>>>> not installed", even though I had just installed it. (I assume some app
>>>> or daemon needed to be reloaded to detect it -- which one?)
>>>>
>>>> Later, when I installed a second wiki, Turck MMCache was detected,
>>>> and I
>>>> activated it. Seeing the result of the activation in LocalSettings.php,
>>>> I uncommented the same line for the other wiki --
>>>>
>>>>     $wgUseTurckShm = function_exists( 'mmcache_get' ) &&
>>>> php_sapi_name()
>>>> == 'apache';
>>>>
>>>> The effect was a messed up cache function -- the second wiki's
>>>> Main_Page
>>>> would consistently display in the first wiki. If I selected [Edit] and
>>>> Preview, I would see the first wiki's real Main_Page intact, but saving
>>>> it would revert the display to the second wiki's front page.
>>>>
>>>> Nikerabbit on #mediawiki irc diagnosed it and I fixed the problem
>>>> easily
>>>> -- whew. But how do I properly activate Turck MMCache for a wiki
>>>> that is
>>>> already installed?
>>>
>>>
>>> This does not answer your question at all, but I experienced some
>>> frustrating problems using Turck MMCache and I advise not using it if
>>> you're
>>> having problems with it.   The answer I received here, if I
>>> understood it
>>> correctly, suggest that MediaWiki has never been able to satisfactory
>>> integrate the data caching feature of Turck in a stable or
>>> satisfactory way,
>>> causing different people to have different problems with it.   Thus, you
>>> shouldn't enable this option in LocalSettings.php.   You might be
>>> concerned
>>> about losing cache capability, but (as I understand) even if you
>>> disable the
>>> option, you still get the benefit of Turck caching compiled php scripts,
>>> which is a big benefit.
>>>
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