Caching of Selected TWiki.org Topics

The new TWiki.org server is now most of the time 100% utilized during working days. Some topics with dynamic content take a long time to render.

Today I installed the VarCachePlugin so that we can cache selected topics for better speed and to reduce the load on the server.

I enabled caching of WebIndex and WebTopicList topics in all public webs. Those topics are not used that often by humans, but search engines pick them up frequently. I set the cache refresh rate to one week (168 hours)

If you have a slow personal home page with dynamic content you can enable caching. Here is an example with a refresh of 6 hours:

%VARCACHE{ refresh="6" }%

The most frequently accessed dynamic topics are the RSS topics. It would help to cache them, say with a refresh of one hour. However, the current VarCachePlugin does not cache a topic if there is a URL parameter (the RSS topics need a skin=rss parameter). The Plugin would need to be enhanced to cache that as well.

Are there other topics that should be cached?

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Sep 2005

The WebRss feeds are now also cached, see CacheWebRssFeedForSpeed.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Sep 2005