[development] Counterintuitive but true: Caching makes a high-traffic site slower

Piotr Krukowiecki piotr at mallorn.ii.uj.edu.pl
Sat Dec 31 14:00:25 UTC 2005


[I've sent this mail yesterday, but it didn't arrive...]


On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:24:46PM -0500, John Handelaar wrote:
> 
> The same table-level locking is *lethal* on a heavily-
> trafficked site which has both


There is a talk about dropping locks completly on 
http://drupal.org/node/39460 (yes, postgresql issue, but I think might
apply to mysql too), with some performance tests (see link from 
http://drupal.org/node/39460#comment-58541).


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