Comments on: WP-Cache Somehow Ineffective? http://nslog.com/2006/12/19/wp-cache_somehow_ineffective The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erik J. Barzeski http://nslog.com/2006/12/19/wp-cache_somehow_ineffective#comment-32215 Erik J. Barzeski Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:58:47 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/12/19/wp-cache_somehow_ineffective/#comment-32215 [quote comment="32213"]"Some hosts like … MediaTemple grid, and others…"[/quote] FWIW, the site is currently hosted on a MediaTemple (dv) plan due very soon for an upgrade to (dv)3. Still, this is interesting information. I'll probably leave WP-Cache installed and enabled because, if nothing else, processor and memory usage is probably lower serving static files from the disk than dynamically generated files. Lloyd Budd said on December 19, 2006:

"Some hosts like … MediaTemple grid, and others…"

FWIW, the site is currently hosted on a MediaTemple (dv) plan due very soon for an upgrade to (dv)3. Still, this is interesting information.

I'll probably leave WP-Cache installed and enabled because, if nothing else, processor and memory usage is probably lower serving static files from the disk than dynamically generated files.

]]> By: Lloyd Budd http://nslog.com/2006/12/19/wp-cache_somehow_ineffective#comment-32213 Lloyd Budd Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:50:53 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/12/19/wp-cache_somehow_ineffective/#comment-32213 It is as likely as Daniel describes. Matt Mullenweg in <a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-December/009836.html">[wp-hackers] 5 minutes to a faster blog</a> wrote: "Some hosts like Dreamhost, Powweb, MediaTemple grid, and others mount all user files via NFS, which generally will mean going directly to the DB is often faster than using the file-based caches. (I could be wrong, but this is one of the reasons we turned off caching by default.)" It is as likely as Daniel describes. Matt Mullenweg in [wp-hackers] 5 minutes to a faster blog wrote:

"Some hosts like Dreamhost, Powweb, MediaTemple grid, and others mount all user files via NFS, which generally will mean going directly to the DB is often faster than using the file-based caches. (I could be wrong, but this is one of the reasons we turned off caching by default.)"

]]> By: Daniel Jalkut http://nslog.com/2006/12/19/wp-cache_somehow_ineffective#comment-32134 Daniel Jalkut Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:06:33 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/12/19/wp-cache_somehow_ineffective/#comment-32134 One possible source of the phenomenon could be that your disk access is slower than your DB access. I've heard of situations like this, particularly where disks are NFS mounted to the host that does the actual serving. At least your dynamic times look pretty fast to start with! One possible source of the phenomenon could be that your disk access is slower than your DB access. I've heard of situations like this, particularly where disks are NFS mounted to the host that does the actual serving.

At least your dynamic times look pretty fast to start with!

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