[support] Drupal 6 page/block cache

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Vasileios Lourdas <drupal at lourdas.name>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using the latest Drupal 6 stable and I have two blocks displaying news
> aggregated using RSS from two other sites. My performance settings are set as
> below:
>
> Page cache: Normal, Minimum cache lifetime: 30 mins, Page 
> compression: Enabled
> Block cache: Enabled
> Bandwidth optimizations: Optimize CSS files: enabled and Optimize Javascript
> files: enabled
>
> I noticed that anonymous users (who see the benefits of page caching) rarely
> see new/updated content. For example, today I visited the site and it
> displayed the RSS news from a week (and more) ago! It's also a policy after I
> add a new page, anonymous users still after days see the old front page (I
> promote all content in the front page).
>
> Why does this thing happen? What are the benefits of using cache if there's
> not a reliable way to invalidate the cache and display new content for
> anonymous users? What am I missing here? Right now, it seems to me that
> disabling cache is the best way to go for my case. Even after force
> reloading, Firefox still displays the old content. If I delete the cache,
> then it's ok.
>

I think you want to control the sessions.  As sessions expire so does 
the cache.  There is http://drupal.org/project/session_expire but it is 
still in Version 5.

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