Caching expiring regularly

Tuesday 11 September 2007 8:00:09 am

Hi,

I recently worked out a new site which extensively cross reference content. The right column frequently list out contents of sibling nodes children and so on. All in all I came to the conclusion that the view caching wouldn't be suitable for my needs here, so most of the full templates disables view caching in favor of cache blocks.

So most of the templates are divided into cache-blocks, some of them have keys=$node.url_alias, some have timeout in minutes (small blocks) and some have subtree expiry. The problem I'm facing is that all my caches seem to expire on a regular basis.

The cache blocks that expire on seconds seem to work fine. One page lags when they are recreated, then the rest of the pages that use the same cache block are fine.

So, why does my cache expire when I'm not publishing content? I read about the 2 hour default cache ttl under the cache-block docs, but the way I understand it this shouldn't come into effect when I'm using subtree expiry or keys? Do I have to set expiry=0 keys=$node.url_alias?

What about the few pages that are cached by the normal view caching? They too expire, even when I'm not publishing content. Does the view cache only live for 2 hours? How can I disable that feature?

Tuesday 11 September 2007 3:08:59 pm

Aha, so I guess I'll change most of the keys= to subtree_expiry instead, that makes sense. I've used the view cache extensively in the past and never had any trouble with it. Now, however, my frontpage, which uses view cache, will be completely regenerated if it has not been visited in an hour or two, even if nothing has happened.

Today I generated caches before leaving work. All pages loads fast. When I check this evening, everything must be regenerated. And I'm the only person with access to it. How can I debug this?

Wednesday 12 September 2007 3:37:52 am

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Thursday 13 September 2007 2:41:39 am

I have now added expiry=0 to all my cache-blocks with keys, and added expiry=0 and ignore_content_expiry on all cache-blocks that use subtree_expiry. Still, my site becomes completely stale after some time (1 or 2 hours). Even pages that use only normal view caching becoms stale after a period of time, even with no visits or edits or no nuthin'.

Any other ideas? I tried to raise the threshold too, to 150. I don't know exactly how this works. I use a cache block on some pages that expire every 10 minutes. If that cache-block will trigger the deletion of caches for 150 nodes or more all caches are cleared, correct? But, are those cache-blocks validated on pages that don't use them? That could maybe explain why my frontpage which is chemically clean of cache-blocks is stale (if the cache-blocks are validated anyway). But it doesn't make any sense to me. Besides, I don't have 150 nodes in my install.

Any other ideas as to what's going on here?