How to test if caching is properly configured and working?

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I have started to administrate a running Owncloud server and the first what what i have seen was error message on admin page that caching is not configured. For project i have chosen following scheme from the official documentation. Small Organization, Single-server Setup - Use APCu for local caching, Redis for file locking.

Now the question. How can i see if caching is really working?
Here is my current path to data dir:
'datadirectory' => '/mnt/owncloud/data',
Will the default cache settings from config.php working with this custom path for owncloud data? Or maybe i need to add to my config.php something like:
'cache_path' => '/mnt/owncloud/data/$user',

Steps to reproduce
1. I have installed all necessary dependencies and packages (redis server, redis modul for php, APCu modul for php).
2. 'filelocking.enabled' => 'true',
'memcache.locking' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',
'redis' =>
array (
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => 6379,
'timeout' => 0,
),

Expected behaviour
cache folders in /mnt/owncloud/data/$user should have some cached files.

Actual behaviour
The message about not configured caching on the admin page has disappeared, but cache folders in /mnt/owncloud/data/$user are empty. I don't have any error messages on my admin page.

Server configuration
Operating system: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Web server: apache2 2.4.7
Database: MySQL 5.53.5
PHP version: 5.5.9
ownCloud version (see ownCloud admin page): 9.0.4
Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install: updated, but i don't know from what version.

2

Redis and APCu are "in-memory" caches so stuff from them won't appear in your cache folder on disk. If the setup message in your admin backend is gone everything is working.

3

Thnx! And what kind of cache will be stored in /mnt/owncloud/data/$user?

4

No idea, just ignored it / don't add it to your config.php and everything is fine for a default environment.

5

Chunks of uploads are stored in $user/cache until upload is complete and original file is reassembled.

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