Cache Files hit the inodes limit. What's the best solution?

[alcooltan]

Hello all, I'm currently running a prestashop 1.4 site with caching turned on (file system caching). Unfortunately, my site has been down a couple of times within 3 weeks of being up The reason, my VPS is hitting the inode limit of 1,000,000. Despite of the inode limit increase to 1,500,000 I still hit the new limit within a week. They have now temporarily increased my limit to 2,000,000. The culprit is the massive number of cache files created.

 

I can think of several ways to address this issue, but would like you guys who are experienced in this to shed your light on this issue. Here goes:

 

1. Have the cache files deleted every 2 days. I don't know what the effect of deleting the cache files is, while users might still be online & using the site. Will they experience any cart loss, for example?

 

2. Ditch the file system caching, and use the memcache instead. I'd like to know if memcache is better at caching prestashop compared to file system method. Is it?

 

3. Find a new VPS plan from a different vendor who doesn't limit the inodes. I'm currently using hostgator. Do you know a better vendor than hostgator?

 

Please let me know what you guys think. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks!

[aiynoon]

Hello all, I'm currently running a prestashop 1.4 site with caching turned on (file system caching). Unfortunately, my site has been down a couple of times within 3 weeks of being up The reason, my VPS is hitting the inode limit of 1,000,000. Despite of the inode limit increase to 1,500,000 I still hit the new limit within a week. They have now temporarily increased my limit to 2,000,000. The culprit is the massive number of cache files created.

 

I can think of several ways to address this issue, but would like you guys who are experienced in this to shed your light on this issue. Here goes:

 

1. Have the cache files deleted every 2 days. I don't know what the effect of deleting the cache files is, while users might still be online & using the site. Will they experience any cart loss, for example?

 

2. Ditch the file system caching, and use the memcache instead. I'd like to know if memcache is better at caching prestashop compared to file system method. Is it?

 

3. Find a new VPS plan from a different vendor who doesn't limit the inodes. I'm currently using hostgator. Do you know a better vendor than hostgator?

 

Please let me know what you guys think. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

I am having the same problem.  How did you solve it?  Any suggestions anyone?  How to delete these files?

[prestashopninja]

Hi,

 

IMHO, 

 

- Memcache is always a better choice compared with file system cache. Since you have a VPS, you can install it or have it installed on your server.

- If you will decide to keep up with FS cache instead, a logical approach would be to delete cache files older than a given time interval -say, files older than seven days- This can be done with a custom module to delete such files, acting as a "poor man's cron".

[aiynoon]

Hi,

 

IMHO, 

 

- Memcache is always a better choice compared with file system cache. Since you have a VPS, you can install it or have it installed on your server.

- If you will decide to keep up with FS cache instead, a logical approach would be to delete cache files older than a given time interval -say, files older than seven days- This can be done with a custom module to delete such files, acting as a "poor man's cron".

Thank you for replying back!  Can I delete the whole cache folder or I have to select anything in particular from the directory files?  Will this create any problem to my website?  Please help!

 

Thanks!

[prestashopninja]

Hi,

 

Sure, you can delete everything under the cache folder, but not the folder itself.

In this case, most probably everything is going to be all right, yet as a good practice, you can just copy -or move- the files somewhere else, so if something will go wrong, you can still copy the files back there.

 

Regards. 

[aiynoon]

Hi,

 

Sure, you can delete everything under the cache folder, but not the folder itself.

In this case, most probably everything is going to be all right, yet as a good practice, you can just copy -or move- the files somewhere else, so if something will go wrong, you can still copy the files back there.

 

Regards. 

 

Great!  Thank you so much for your help.  I will do that right away.

 

One more thing:

 

Template cache

Never recompile template files

Recompile templates if the files have been updated

Force compilation

Cache

Clear Smarty cache & Autoload cache

Should be enabled except for debugging.

Debug console

Do not open console

Open console with URL parameter (SMARTY_DEBUG)

Always open console

Debug console Key

SMARTY_DEBUG parameter in the URL.

 

 

I just saved this.  Are these settings good?  Will this settings help me not create cache files?  I am sorry but I don't understand this.  Do you know anything regarding this?

 

Thank you once again!

[aiynoon]

Great!  Thank you so much for your help.  I will do that right away.

 

One more thing:

 

Template cache

Never recompile template files

Recompile templates if the files have been updated

Force compilation

Cache

Clear Smarty cache & Autoload cache

Should be enabled except for debugging.

Debug console

Do not open console

Open console with URL parameter (SMARTY_DEBUG)

Always open console

Debug console Key

SMARTY_DEBUG parameter in the URL.

 

 

I just saved this.  Are these settings good?  Will this settings help me not create cache files?  I am sorry but I don't understand this.  Do you know anything regarding this?

 

Thank you once again!

 

Opps the copy paste deleted the settings. 

 

Recompile templates if the files have been updated (I clicked on this)

 

Cache (I clicked on no)

[prestashopninja]

Hi,

 

I think you will need to enable the cache as well.

[aiynoon]

Oh ok.  Well thank you once again!

 

Hi,

 

I think you will need to enable the cache as well.

[vekia]

prestashopninja please follow forum rules, especially part related to "signatures"

thanks in advance.