Hello,

I'm hoping people can help me understand how best to use the cache... I am a little new to DNN caching stuff, and .NET's stuff there in general.

I am developing a module that manages some conference proceedings. So, we might have 5,000 papers or something for a conference, and these will be created, moved around, and placed in positions for the conference. Each paper objects has the sorts of things you'd expect - a title, abstract, authors, etc. Many different people will access and work with the items in many different ways.

First, is it bad to cache 5000 individual items? Or, should I cache the full list of the items? or both? Should I worry about the amount of space these things will use in the cache? or, is 5000 items actually not that big of a deal.

If I do cache these things, sometimes, I'll need the data in real-time. So, is it best to update the cache every time an item is updated? This was part of why I was worried about caching the full list of everything - wouldn't I have to update a 5000 item cache every time one small thing changes in one paper?

Thanks a lot in advance for any advice you might have...

Mike

Hi Cathal,

Thanks... Do you happen to know how DNN handle's user caching? Does it cache individual users (name, username, profile) and then also cache a list of user names? My guess is that my stuff is analogous in size to user records - so that might give me a good sense of what's safe.

Mike