[Koha-devel] Memcached and Koha

[Pongtawat Chippimolchai]

Dear Chris,

This is clear to me now. Thank you very much.
I'm currently trying to setup Koha on Plack as well :)

Regards,
Pongtawat

On อ. 16 ต.ค. 2555, 16:07:32, Chris Cormack wrote:
> On 16 October 2012 22:03, Pongtawat Chippimolchai <pongtawat.c at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Galen,
>>
>> Thank you for information.
>>
>> I'm a little bit curious why prefs are not cached? Loading them seem to take
>> many round trips to MySQL.
>>
> Memcached is for scalability not speed, fetching the prefs from
> memcached is actually slower than fetching them mysql, unless your
> database is under severe load. (We benchmarked them). If you run Koha
> under plack (which you can do with a bit of set up from 3.8.x on), the
> preferences are cached in persistent variables, there is obviously a
> huge improvement with that.
>
> Chris