Exceptionally large number of caching updates

@nathan-adams Two questions:

1) Are you using Comet Cache Pro with the Auto-Cache Engine enabled, or are you using Comet Cache Lite from here on www.remarpro.com (which doesn’t have the Auto-Cache Engine feature)?

2) Do you have 404 Caching enabled? See Comet Cache → Plugin Options → 404 Requests

Note that Comet Cache itself does not go through your site and cache things (unless you’re using the Auto-Cache Engine). The core mechanism that Comet Cache uses to ‘create’ a cache file is a request to your site. So when you visit a page on your site for the first time, if it has not been cached yet then Comet Cache will generate a cache file at that time. But unless and until a request to a page occurs, Comet Cache will not generate a cache file.

The behavior you explained sounds like something is spidering your site and each of those requests is resulting in Comet Cache attempting to create a cache file. If those are non-existent pages, then Comet Cache will only attempt to create a cache file if 404 Requests caching is enabled.

Hi Raam,

Thanks for your response. I’m using the Lite version of the plugin, and 404 Caching is not on.

I think you’re right about spidering, as I can see large numbers of cache files being updated with identical timestamps. I’m guessing it’s going through ?p=1, ?p=2 etc. and if the post id matches a post/page, that isn’t ignored by the cache.

I’ll up my security settings to crack down on multiple 404 requests and see how that goes.