[development] Cpu usage: something is very wrong (caching).

[Peter Wolanin]

In response to Augustin, I don't think there is any way around the
complete invalidation of cached pages when a node is added, since a
single node may be displayed in part or whole on any or all of the
site pages.

Seems like object-level caching needs to be the next step:

http://drupal.org/node/74020

and having a sensible API would make it easier for modules to
appropriately invalidate the cache, set a time limit on the cache, or
prevent objects from ever being cached.

>Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:31:14 +0800
>From: "Augustin (Beginner)" <drupal.beginner at wechange.org>
>Subject: [development] Cpu usage: something is very wrong (caching).
>
>I just reviewed the Caching, Caching, Caching thread, but I didn't see that it
>addressed an issue that I recently learned about and that I find somewhat
>shocking: the whole {cache} is being emptied whenever a node is created or
>edited, meaning that even a medium-traffic website with many nodes but only
>one or two added every day will see a very high cpu usage, because the 100s
>of nodes will always be purged from {cache} before Drupal has a chance to
>serve the cached page to a second visitor.
>
>This approach defeats the whole caching purpose.