[Mediawiki-l] turck mmcache

[Brion Vibber]

Chris Smeder wrote:
> I was wondering if you knew of a good forum or resource that would help me
> learn how to Admin mediawiki.  Ive been reading over the
>  the help pages at mediawiki.org but often they do not address my questions.
> 
> My main problem right now is I have installed turck mmcache but I don't know
> what do input for server and port? I tried localhost:80 with no success.

Those options are only meaningful for memcached; you shoudln't set them 
to anything.

> With a result of "Shared memory caching: Memcached servers: Didn't get
> correct memcached response from localhost:80". So I was forced to install
> with out the cache option enabled. I added this question to the talk page of
> help:installation but have recieved no response.

You shouldn't do anything; the primary benefit of turck mmcache and 
other PHP opcode caches is caching the compiled PHP scripts, which 
requires no configuration in MediaWiki.

Since parser-cache data can easily overwhelm the small memory caches for 
these tools, I recommend against using the experimental options for 
caching other data in them unless you really want to do experimentation 
and testing to see what is most efficient for you; simply use the 
default database caching.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)