Manual:$wgUseMemCached
 | This feature was removed completely in version 1.17.0. |
| Memcached settings: $wgUseMemCached | |
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| Use memcache, using the servers set in $wgMemCachedServers. |
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| Introduced in version: | Before 1.1.0 |
| Removed in version: | 1.17.0 |
| Allowed values: | (boolean) |
| Default value: | false |
| Other settings: Alphabetical | By function | |
Use Memcached memory-based object store.
With $wgUseMemCached = true;, old versions of MediaWiki will use the servers specified in the $wgMemCachedServers array.
Replaced by $wgMainCacheType
Details
More information in docs/memcached.txt (and Memcached)
(1.3, 1.4) Plenty of code rely on this setting to indicate whether they should use the BagOStuff class (from $wgMemc) for caching, meaning they can not use Turck MMCache or eAccelerator, because this setting is only set if memcache is used, not if $wgMemc is valid. 1.5 may fix this.
(1.5) In all 1.5.x versions, this setting was not declared in DefaultSettings.php, but was still being used internally. This was rectified in 1.6.0.