caching

What does the head of smarty cache files mean?

132 a:4:{s:8:"template";a:1:{s:10:"index.html";b:1;}s:9:"timestamp";i:1256373019;s:7:"expires";i:1256373079;s:13:"cache_serials";a:0:{}}<body> php<br > java<br > c++<br > </body> Can someone explain this part: 132 a:4:{s:8:"template";a:1:{s:10:"index.html";b:1;}s:9:"timestamp";i:1256373019;s:7:"expires";i:1256373079;s:13:"ca...

.NET: Scalability of generic Dictionary

I'm using a Dictionary<> to store a bazillion items. Is it safe to assume that as long as the server's memory has enough space to accommodate these bazillion items that I'll get near O(1) retrieval of items from it? What should I know about using a generic Dictionary as huge cache when performance is important? EDIT: I shouldn't rely on...

Making a memory intensive background application "friendly"

I have an application that periodically needs to process large blocks of data with a computationally trivial algorithm. It turns out I can also prevent slowing down the system from hard drive accesses by keeping the blocks of data in a memory cache. The application is a low-priority application so I'm working to minimize its impact on th...

In Django, how to clear all the memcached keys and values?

I don't want to restart the memcached server! ...

Control Cache In asp.net

Hi, In a module i have a sub that create modalpopup and show result of action..I dont wanna drop & drag modalpopup extender and make html complex therefore i do that in code-behind.I wonder that Can i cache my panel and then get it from cache?It takes time to crate these panels.Or do u have recommodations to improve performance of this ...

mySQL caching - Memory or Hard disk?

Hi all, I am working on a grid based treasure hunt like game in PHP , mySQL and I am trying to decide between two caching options. Game Description The user has a 1000 cell grid, clicking on some cells will have no effect, others will direct you to a "this item has been found!" page :)... many items are accessible via any of a number o...

ASP.NET Caching with Session variable ?

I've got some kind of community website, there are about 40.000 users in database with many property columns. There are two pages where latest and online users are shown based on some kind of criteria ie. gender. I've made some SQL trick to get only ten rows per page so not that much information is sent back by sql server for search,inb...

Output Excel file in PHP after echo

HI, I am trying to display results from a database in results.php. In the same file, after all the data has been displayed in the current webpage,I am placing a button to create a file based on this results to produce a Excel file. I am not sure how to do this. I have tried but it says you have to force excel file download before any ...

How do browsers deal with full caches?

How do browsers deal with a full cache? Presumably they all make some kind of decision on what to throw away based on file size, expiration time and so on? Anyone know where I can find details? Google just returns a load of pages about manually clearing caches. ...

What is the fastest distributed Caching Solution for .net?

What caching solution will give me the best results both in terms of requests per second that it can handle and in terms of request latency? ...

Loading AtlasSpriteManager in background threads are not working..

Hi, I am doing a iPhone game using cocos2d that involves a huge set of character animations (atleast 25 different of them).. for which I am having a lot of spritesheets each weighing around 100KB to 200KB.. And I used to create the AtlasSpriteManagers for these on-demand. But when I tested this in the device, there was lotsa performance...

How to Disable Django / mod_WSGI Page Caching

I have Django running in Apache via mod_wsgi. I believe Django is caching my pages server-side, which is causing some of the functionality to not work correctly. I have a countdown timer that works by getting the current server time, determining the remaining countdown time, and outputting that number to the HTML template. A javascript...

What's the best place for a database-backed, memory-resident global cache in an ASP.NET web server?

I have to cache an object hierarchy in-memory for performance reasons, which reflects a simple database table with columns (ObjectID, ParentObjectID, Timestamp) and view CurrentObjectHierarchy. I query the CurrentObjectHierarchy and use a hash table to cache the current parents of each object for quickly looking up the parent object ID,...

Browser cache problems when accessing PHP files with Mootools' SqueezeBox

Hi, I am using Squeeze Box to access a PHP file which prints an alert for the user based on the link clicked (i.e. PHP file uses $_GET variable). The problem is when I click once the alert box open correctly but when I click the link again, the result appears twice i.e. it duplicates itself and the results continue replicating each tim...

ASP.NET Manipulating Dataset object

I have a users table where there are two types of users in it, users a and users b. There is a page on my website that shows 20 of each type based on querystring parameter. I want to cache these for 6 hours as their order is not that important. My question is is it better to have two different SqlDataAdapter calls and two different Dat...

Caching data and notifying clients about changes in data in ASP.NET

Hi, We are thinking to make some architectural changes in our application, which might affect the technologies we'll be using as a result of those changes. The change that I'm referring in this post is like this: We've found out that some parts of our application have common data and common services, so we extracted those into a Globa...

stupid caching in asp.net

i use such code string.Format("<img src='{0}'><br>", u.Avatar); u.Avatar-it's like '/img/path/pic.jpg' but in this site i can upload new image instead old pic.jpg. so picture new, but name is old. and browser show OLD picture (cache). if i put random number like /img/path/pic.jpg?123 then works fine, but i need it only ufter upload, ...

flushing datacache on linux

What is the standard way to manipulate the data-cache on linux from a user-mode program? I'd like to writeback and invalidate the data-cache of a memory region that that is shared between my user-mode program and a peripheral device. Linux has no driver for it, and writing one myself would be overkill for the simple things I want to ...

Page output cache directive varybycustom vs ValidateCacheOutput

I have aspx pages inherit from a basepage class. Each page has a output cache directive with a varybycustom string and I define the string in global.asax. The website is multilingual and switches language according to query string parameter. I had random cases where the language was switched and a few clicks away one of the pages would...

ASP.NET MVC: Clear an action's cache from another action

Is it possible to clear one action's cache from another action? Let's say my Index action lists all my Widgets. There are lots of Widgets but new ones are not created very often. So I want to cache my Index action indefinitely but force it to render after a successful Create. public class WidgetController : Controller { [OutputCach...