[wp-hackers] Questions about the Cache

[Viper007Bond]

Oh, really? I have it enabled on my shared account for viper007bond.com. 
It cuts the queries used in like half, so I thought it was good to have on.

I should turn it off?

David Chait wrote:
> Actually, someone can correct me, but options caching and the wp 'object 
> cache' are I think different beasts.  Options caching is built directly into 
> the options system, whereas the object cache is made to cache more 'general' 
> queries to SQL.
> 
> In any case, if you are on a shared server, don't enable the wp object 
> cache.  It can actually hurt performance, and on some servers its 
> functionality is 'broken' and it actually spikes cpu usage.  The object 
> cache is IMHO only to be used on dedicated servers, by a coder/admin who 
> knows what they are doing (and probably using one of the replacement 
> implementations, such as memcached, APC, etc.).
> 
> -d
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Harwood" <mark at phunky.co.uk>
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Questions about the Cache
> 
> 
> | The cache is enabled, i think its just down to me using Apache on
> | windows - i have been able to do what i wanted now tho thanks to Vipers
> | comments, will have to give it a proper test later on in the day on my
> | live webserver to see if it caches it properly tho
> |
> | Mark
> |
> | Robert Deaton wrote:
> |
> | > On 7/19/06, Mark Harwood <mark at phunky.co.uk> wrote:
> | >
> | >> Arrr right i do kinda get what your saying now, i just thought it would
> | >> be possible to just add to the $wp_object_cache->cache[users] that
> | >> already gets set but i guess this is not stored?
> | >
> | >
> | > Perhaps you need to enable the cache, which is now disabled by default.
> | >
> |
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