Hello, Mark. I just installed the cache setting;
long pages become an order of magnitude faster to load.
I think, you should make the caching to be default.
Or consider to supply the hint at your set-up program.
I think, for beginners, it should suggest the command
memcached -d -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -m 64
from the command line; then, value at the first example
127.0.0.0.1:11211
seems to be correct choice. I got this hint from the manual at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Memcached
Consider to copypast this hint to the installer.
You may repeat it also to the README file,
and as comment in the LocalSettings.php
I think, it is important, because it is difficult to guess.
(at least, for those, who do not understand the meaning
of the abracadabra "memcached -d -l ..." )
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
I've just finished preparing the first release
candidate for MediaWiki
1.21 and I'd like your help testing it before the final release.
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