[wp-hackers] What were the shared hosting issues with persistent file cache prior to WP 2.5 ?

[Peter Westwood]

On 2 Nov 2010, at 15:18, Kaloyan Tsvetkov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am doing some research on file-based caching and I read that persistent
> cache was removed from WP since 2.5 and was replaced with in-memory one. The
> reason for that were that the WP implementation was hardly introducing any
> performance boost and that there were some issues with shared hosting.
> 
> Does someone recall what these issues were, or at least where I can read
> about them ?

Shared hosted storing the filesystem on remote NFS share

This is slower to access than the mysql db

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