Last modified: 2013-09-04 11:49:44 UTC
Created attachment 8848 [details] Patch to check xcache.var_size Right now if $wgMainCacheType (Or any of the caches) are set to CACHE_ACCEL, it only checks if the function exists. In some cases where XCache is installed however variable storage is off (xcache.var_size = 0), MediaWiki will continue to blindly try and use XCache, resulting in a slew of warnings such as this: > Warning: xcache_get(): xcache.var_size is either 0 or too small to enable var data caching in /customers/d/b/e/hugsmile.eu/httpd.www/mediawiki-1.17.0/includes/BagOStuff.php on line 619 We should probably not continue using it if there's alternatives or just plain notify the site owner that his caching method isn't working. At the least, checking for this at install time should be done. The included patch does both.
Created attachment 8849 [details] Reattached marked as a patch so bugzilla recognizes it
Looks good -- did a quick test on Ubuntu 11.04 w/ php5-xcache module enabled. Default config of that package actually has the xcache.var_size set to 0, so that's a good thing to check for! With patch in, this condition gets treated as if xcache just wasn't there, which seems like the right behavior. When the xcache.var_size is cranked up (say 32M), it's still detected. Note for potential testers: the installer does detection near the beginning. To ensure that it's seeing your PHP configuration updates, restart the install after each config + Apache restart. Applied on trunk in r93563.
Recommending for backport to 1.18 and 1.17; marking in CR.
Took the liberty of doing it for 1.18 in r93564.
