On 3/14/11 6:34 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
> I think he might mean that invalidating the cache of a large number of 
> semi-popular long tail pages (being the long numper pages we serve less hits 
> to, but hit a similar volume of traffic to a page like MW's when you add all 
> of them together) at the same time could create a similar performance issue 
> to the invalidation of a single extremely article article like MJ was. Simply 
> because we're invalidating a number of not top-## pages, but popular enough 
> that the total number of people viewing the collection of pages gets close to 
> the traffic one MJ-popular article gets.
>
Sorry, you folks get used to communication via IRC, and then use IRC'ish
internal speak....  Anyway, I remember the MJ day, and went back and read
that thread.

Whatever happened to Domas' idea that, for things already in the cache and
about to be invalidated, a newly parsed instance be stored in memcache before
invalidating other caches, so that the article is only parsed once?

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