Caching strategy, when does caching become pointless?

Question

I\'m pretty new to caching strategies and implementations. I\'m working on a project that will be database intensive, but also have information being updated and changed very re

Answer 1

This is both hardware- and application-dependent. You need to perform benchmarks to determine the threshold at which OS indexing becomes greater than the data storage/retrieval duration (both at the MySQL level and cached file access level). And you also need to compare that against the acceptable (very subjective) threshold of your audience.