Re: [MediaWiki-l] Objectcache table - records expiry time 2038

2018-02-07 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:34 PM Brian Wolff wrote: > Generally speaking objectcache is used as a last resort form of caching if > you dont have apcu, memcached, redis, or something else configured. > > I wonder if swapping it for a MEMORY table would be beneficial? Then it'd behave much more like

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Objectcache table - records expiry time 2038

2018-02-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, John Horne wrote: > On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 15:33 -0500, Brian Wolff wrote: >> Generally speaking objectcache is used as a last resort form of caching if >> you dont have apcu, memcached, redis, or something else configured. >> > ... >> >> In the long run, I would rec

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Objectcache table - records expiry time 2038

2018-02-07 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 15:33 -0500, Brian Wolff wrote: > Generally speaking objectcache is used as a last resort form of caching if > you dont have apcu, memcached, redis, or something else configured. > ... > > In the long run, I would reccomend installing apcu so that cache stuff is > stored there

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Objectcache table - records expiry time 2038

2018-02-06 Thread Brian Wolff
Generally speaking objectcache is used as a last resort form of caching if you dont have apcu, memcached, redis, or something else configured. Truncating the contents of the table will make the next couple of requests to mediawiki slower as some of the cache entries will need to be rebuilt. But it

[MediaWiki-l] Objectcache table - records expiry time 2038

2018-02-06 Thread John Horne
Hello, We are running an old version of mediawiki (1.24.2), and have noticed recently that overnight we are seeing that the disk utilisation is reaching nearly 100% for almost an hour. During the night, at different times, we run a database backup (mysqldump) and a database check (mysqlcheck). It