[FIXED] How do you know if memcached is doing anything?

Issue

I'm testing out using memcached to cache django views. How can I tell if memcached is actually caching anything from the Linux command line?

Solution

Simple way to test for memcache working was to sneak in a commented out timestamp on every page served up. If the timestamp stayed the same on multiple requests to a page, then the page was being cached by memcache.

In Django settings, I also setup the cache mechanism to use a file cache on the filesystem (really slow), but after hitting up the pages I could see that there were actual cache files being placed in the file path so I could confirm caching was active in Django.

I used both these steps to work out my caching problem. I actually did not have caching turned on correctly in Django. The newer method to activate caching is using the 'django.middleware.cache.CacheMiddleware' middleware (not the middleware with two middleware pieces that have to be the first/last middleware settings.)

Answered By - MikeN

Answer Checked By - David Marino (PHPFixing Volunteer)