On Jan 14, 2008 10:37 AM, Huji huji.huji@gmail.com wrote:
I think refreshing should be enabled again for pages viewed in "raw" mode (.js and .css in particular).
Repeat after me: Refreshing is not the solution.
In the environment here squid is effectively part of MediaWiki. If mediawiki isn't flushing squid, it's broken. That you could refresh to skirt brokenness was itself a bug. Most users won't know to refresh and a culture of pervasive refreshing would be terrible for performance.
Having highly effective caching is essential for long term performance. Without it Wikimedia has to spend more money on webserver resources (which are VASTLY more expensive per object served than caches), bandwidth is wasted transferring data to remote clusters, and the ability to benifit from geographic distribution to reduce client latency is seriously reduced.
(and keep up the good reports of things which are not flushing on their own!)