If you configured your site to run mongo unit tests and had
the mongo extension and backend installed but did not have the
mongo service running you would get a fatal error when running
the unit tests.
That problem has been fixed by checking the mongo test instance
is ready before returning it.
For stores where there is a very high rate of sets compared to gets, it
is beneficial to retrieve from the local server, skipping the network
overhead, at the expense of having to set many severs when a key is set.
This patch adds a memcache option to enable clustering. When on, only
one "server" is allowed, which will be where fetches are from, while
sets/updates/deletes/purges will occur to the all the servers in the
"set server" list.
To run unit tests, define TEST_CACHESTORE_MEMCACHE_TESTSERVERS with
multiple (return delimited) servers.
For stores where there is a very high rate of sets compared to gets, it
is beneficial to retrieve from the local server, skipping the network
overhead, at the expense of having to set many severs when a key is set.
This patch adds a memcached option to enable clustering. When on, only
one "server" is allowed, which will be where fetches are from, while
sets/updates/deletes/purges will occur to the all the servers in the
"set server" list.
To run unit tests, define TEST_CACHESTORE_MEMCACHED_TESTSERVERS with
multiple (return delimited) servers.
Several reports have been made about the unexpected purging of entire
memcached servers when MUC is configured to use Memcache and caches
get purged.
This is expected and occurs because the memcache extenions don't
provide isolated containers. Moodle data is stored along side any other
data in the cache and when caches get purged all data gets removed
whether it belongs to Moodle or not.
The docs cover this point and here I've added notes about this to both
config-dist.php and cache/README.md
We now show a warning icon with an explanatory alt if the user
has mapped a store as a mode default that doesn't not fulfill the
requirements of every known definition.