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@@ -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