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Gadget definitions are bloated
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On (backend) page request on enwiki, 'enwiki:gadgets-definition:7' is fetched from memcached. It's 53k of data. That is excessive.

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:52 AM
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Ability to disable gadget caching
Change-Id: Ic1653ae896ac0fd7c0165ecee76f807feea6edcf
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/158809

(MaxSem)

Because it's putting a serious strain on memcached without
a clear performance benefit, or at least so it seems at
this point. That's why we're going to test it in prod
without caching.