Re: Urgent: Nesting of OSCache tags

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:25:41PM +0100, Bjørn Wang wrote:
> I have some questions regarding nesting og cache tags, which I hope to
> get your opinion on.
>  
> We're about to go into production with a site that uses nested cache tags
> for caching of both HTML pages and HTML fragments (partial pages).
> We're dependant on caching HTML-fragments to meet get the required
> performance.
>  
> We've been testing use of nested tags using OSCache even though the
> FAQ clearly states that this is not supported. All the same, it seems to
> work well. Still, we're reluctant to go into production with nested tags if
> this is an unsupported feature.
>  
> Question #1:
> What are the consequences of nesting tags in OSCache?

I think that the problems lie with the generation of the keys that are
used for the caches.  I would ensure that you specify a key for each
cache tag that you want to use.

I'm not 100% sure if there are any other considerations - maybe someone
else can help our here.

Cheers,
Scott

> Question #2:
> What would you recommend as a workaround to get nested tags
> working? We're looking into using BEA WebLogics own cache tags for
> the "inner" cache tags (fragment caching), but we're not quite content
> with the performance and quality of this cache. Using OSCache would
> be preferable.
>  
> Hoping to get some advice. :-)
>  
>  
> Best regards,
> Bjorn Wang
>  


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