User talk:Aaron Schulz/How to make MediaWiki fast

$wgHitcounterUpdateFreq
Thanks for this page, it helped me a lot to speed up my wiki. What about adding a link to Manual:$wgHitcounterUpdateFreq as an option NOT to disable the view counter. I didn't test it 100% but  indeed reduced CPU usage on my server. --Subfader 13:23, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

$wgParserCacheType and filecache
hi,

i am using filecache. but, i see that if wgParserCacheType = cache_accel, then the APC cache is still filling up with parsed pages.

so should wgParserCacheType be set to cache_none if filecache is enabled?

Also, if Localsettings.php is changed, does the filecache automatically get invalidated? do we need to manually rebuild the filecache, or will it rebuild as the pages are accessed?

Thanks!!
 * If the APC cache is too small, it would be better to use memcached or at least set the parser cache type to CACHE_DB. If you mostly are getting logged-out visitors, then the filecache should work well. Changing LocalSettings does not inherently invalidate file cache. There is a $wgCacheEpoch variable though.