Cache

Emir -

I've upgraded to Joomla 1.5, and I'm currently running SEF Advance 2008 (2.4..  The site has about 1,250 pages.  I noticed the cache currently contains around 7,200 files, which seems like a lot for a site of this size.  I have the cache expire time set to 12 hours.  This is only about 450KB in size, but I was wondering how the cache is used.  It seems to be creating a new file for each visitor.  I thought these were unique to each page.

I also don't remember this many files being created on my old site, which had more traffic in the past.

Bill

If you use cache in SEF Advance, it creates a cache file for every URL. And it can be a lot, especially if there are different non-sef URLs for the same page (which happens a lot in Joomla).

You don't have to use cache at all. It's mostly for sites with slow databases. Turn it off and see how it behaves on your site.

As always, thanks for the quick response.  I was thinking about lowering the time to 3,600, to keep the total number of cached pages down.  I'm wondering if that just causes an additional lookup...  the server / database have no trouble keeping up with the request.

Might it be better just to turn it off completely?

Thanks again for all the support.

Bill

As said, it depends on your database. In most cases it's quicker to query the database than read a cache file. But if your site receives a lot of traffic you can benefit of cache since it keeps queries down and saves CPU.

Personally I never used SEF Advance cache even on sites that received over 10.000 unique visitors daily. And it worked just fine. But the database was on the same server, not separately.

Got it, thanks.