Re: Memcache configured, but not used !?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ivo Brodien <ib@brodien.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I assume you configured the cache backend to point to memcache, didn't you ?
>
> yes :)
>
> in my settings.py I have
>
>
>
>   CACHES = {
>       'default': {
>           'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache',
>       }
>   }
>
>
> try:
>   from local_settings import *
> except ImportError:
>   pass
>
> and in local_settings.py:
>
> CACHES = {
>   'default': {
>       'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
>       'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
>   }
> }
>
> Which should override the dummycache setting.
>
> However I just checked using ./manage.py shell:
>
> from django.core.cache import cache
> print cache
> <django.core.cache.backends.locmem.CacheClass object at 0x2705dd0>
>
> In the shell it is using the locmem which I haven't configured anywhere... strange!
>
> Bye
> Ivo
>

You don't specify what version of django you are using. I suspect you
are referring to the trunk/1.3 docs, and using 1.2. In 1.2, the cache
is controlled by settings.CACHE_BACKEND, which defaults to locmem if
omitted.

Cheers

Tom

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