Title: [Plugin: WP Super Cache] memcached
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Super Cache] memcached

 *  [wpcdn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcdn/)
 * (@wpcdn)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-memcached/)
 * Hi,
 * I read that WP Super Cache supports memcached, and will use it if available. 
   However, we’ve installed memcached and the PECL extension, but I don’t see anywhere
   in Super Cache to enable that. Memached seems to be working properly (based on
   a number of tests).
 * How can I leverage it with Super Cache?
 * Thanks,
 * Mark
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-memcached/#post-2494687)
 * You have to have a memcached object cache plugin installed, but support for an
   object cache is very basic. You’re better off looking at Batcache.
 *  [h2so4_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/h2so4_/)
 * (@h2so4_)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-memcached/#post-2494982)
 * Is memcached really used for caching the pages even if its installed? I only 
   see some test data as it seems.
 * [Screenshot](http://www.abload.de/img/memiuzbz.png)
 * You said we can use Batcache for memcached usage, but would that work combined
   with WP Supercache or is this just another solution?
 * Best regards and thanks by the way for that great plugin.
 * Edit: In Batcache readme the developer sais, that file based caching like you
   use is faster, is that true? I thought using memcached would be way faster than
   reading files from a harddrive because it should be located in the servers RAM.
   Maybe I understood something fundamentaly wrong :S
 *  Plugin Author [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-memcached/#post-2494983)
 * Using files like Supercache does is marginally faster but batcache is better 
   if you have multiple servers.
 * No, you can’t use Supercache and Batcache at the same time.
 *  [h2so4_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/h2so4_/)
 * (@h2so4_)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-memcached/#post-2494984)
 * Thank you for your quick answer Donncha, i decided to use WP Super Cache and 
   let it preload every possible page of the page into a tmpfs partition mounted
   at /wp-content/cache. That works pretty amazing now!

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