Jan said that I have caching turned off, which surprised me because I thought
it was on. Now I've looked at the code and I still think it is on.
wikiSettings.php:
$useCachedPages = true ;
wikiLocalSettings.php:
# $useCachedPages = false; # Disable page cache
(This is commented out, right?)
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Playing with benchmarking, grabbing a normal article 100 times:
(I know that this type of benchmarking is not very scientific, since conditions
may change on the live server due to someone else doing something big at the same
time, etc. But I think it gives an indication.)
As the site is running:
/apache/bin/ab -n100 -c1
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Alabama
Requests per second: 0.95 [#/sec] (mean)
Now I will set $useCachedPages to false by uncommenting the line in
wikiLocalSettings.php.
/apache/bin/ab -n100 -c1
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Alabama
Requests per second: 0.97 [#/sec] (mean)
So I see no material difference.
How can I easily tell if caching is actually on or off? Am I doing something wrong
here?