[wp-hackers] Expected WPMU Performance

[Ryan Boren]

Shayne Sweeney wrote:
> Robin,
> 
> Litespeed is actually what Wordpress.com uses. According to their
> benchmarks, Litespeed's, Litespeed is faster. My tests have also shown
> numbers accurate to theirs. I've also tried Lighttpd in the past, both
> Litespeed and Lighttpd are showing numbers much faster than Apache.
> 
> I am using a PHP caching as well, in fact, APC (Alternative PHP Cache). In
> the past I have used eAccelerator too. Both provide op-code caching and APC
> also has key based caching, similar to that of memcache.
> 
> I'm currently writing a caching plugin that acts similar to WP-Cache but is
> computable with WPMU.
> 
> Still looking for some solution.

You can try out the memcached backend to the WP object cache.

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/memcached/trunk/

Ryan