Cache Expiry

Alex Stapleton alexs at advfn.com
Fri Nov 4 08:20:10 PST 2005


On 4 Nov 2005, at 15:47, Andrew Miehs wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I was just wondering how the cache expires/ removes records when it  
> is full.
>
> What basis does it use to work out which records to purge?
> ie: How long ago they were last requested? Random?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>


iirc it's uses a plain old LRU (least recently used) approach. So the  
oldest things get wiped first.


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