[Mediawiki-l] Server performance: Google is killing MediaWiki

[Emufarmers Sangly]

On Dec 23, 2007 12:44 AM, Agon S. Buchholz <asb at kefk.net> wrote:

> Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
> > I don't see why file caching would really help here.  Other forms of
> > caching, however, such as eAccelerator or APC bytecode caching, and/or
> > memcached, could dramatically improve your wiki's ability to handle
> traffic.
>
> The general idea was to relieve MediaWiki from generating dynamic pages
> all over again to free server resources for other tasks. I've never
> thought I'd need something like APC for my (small) site, but I'll check
> this out.
>
I believe file caching is just for static pages; I don't think it would be
of any help here, but PHP caching should improve things.

You might also want to check Apache's logs: Is Googlebot actually hitting
your site an inordinate number of times, or is your site just choking on
requests to a few particular pages?


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