Wednesday, May 14, 2008

WordPress Cache system and CPU

Before cache system CPU looks like this:

wordpress-cpu-usage-before.png

After enable some kind of cache system (I use two of them for my sites: WP-Cache or if this doesn’t work i use WP-Super-Cache)

wordpress-cpu-usage-after.png

It’s frustrating, because caching is a completely solved problem in other programming communities. For example, the .NET framework has had page output caching and page fragment output caching baked into ASP.NET for years.

What I just don’t understand is why, after all these years, and all these documented problems, WordPress hasn’t folded WP-Cache into the core. If you’re ever planning to have traffic of any size on a WordPress blog, consider yourselves warned.

Read more Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs

I also don’t know why they don’t use this cache system for default install of Wordpress ?

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