Sq_cache table is empty at all times

yogibear · August 2, 2007, 12:53am

Hi all,

I want to know whether having an empty sq_cache table cause any major faults such as performance of the interface.

Cheers :lol:

gsherwood · August 2, 2007, 1:00am

sq_cache is used to cache the frontend of your site, not the admin or editing interfaces. An empty table means you have frontend caching disabled.

yogibear · August 2, 2007, 1:07am

What are the advantages and disadvantages if any if the frontend caching is disabled. Does this effect the speed of the system when authoring assets within both interfaces.

cheers :lol:

aleks · August 2, 2007, 1:17am

Front end caching does not improve performance in _edit or _admin

Avi_Miller · August 2, 2007, 2:07am

That's not quite true -- with all caching turned on and caching enabled for design areas, then Simple Edit may be faster because the design will paint faster.

However, overall caching will improve the speed of the system by reducing the overhead for each page load, thus lowering system utilisation overall.

Rayn_Ong · August 3, 2007, 2:06am

Here's an excerpt from developer tech doc:

When and Where to Cache

A site should use caching when it has static content that does not change often and/or it receives lots of hits. Since the caching is server performance related a system administrators should also help to decide if caching is required. For example, A site with lots of listing engine assets, standard pages should turn on caching and a site with lots of polls, forms, and pages that needs to be updated immediately should not use caching.