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| author | Sarah Boyce <42296566+sarahboyce@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-02-13 21:09:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com> | 2023-02-13 21:09:55 +0100 |
| commit | de42d51361e316a4525440ad953e3a42ea6432b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 005fc2d04b0bedfe51475908dec9ff31409fc12f /docs | |
| parent | 8cc5caa113ed6de1d1ba803c4bd80f698ff930b2 (diff) | |
[4.2.x] Fixed #29994 -- Added warning about performance of FileBasedCache with a large number of files.
Co-authored-by: sheenarbw <699166+sheenarbw@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>
Backport of 1eb94bc8dab46dfa117d21ef4f3b52aebb593615 from main
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diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt index 4cf644307c..a94f59bbe8 100644 --- a/docs/topics/cache.txt +++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt @@ -375,6 +375,14 @@ the user ``apache``. content, which your site will trust, but also remotely execute arbitrary code, as the data is serialized using :mod:`pickle`. +.. warning:: + + Filesystem caching may become slow when storing a large number of files. If + you run into this problem, consider using a different caching mechanism. + You can also subclass + :source:`FileBasedCache <django/core/cache/backends/filebased.py>` and + improve the culling strategy. + .. _local-memory-caching: Local-memory caching |