Smaty cache takes too much SSD space for some modules

[vsn]

Hi there, by analyzing space problems on my SSD hosting I found out that smary cache for two modules take almost 0,5 GB (...cache/smarty/cache). They are crosselling and productcategory. The folders are full with single directories and files. Why they are so huge? Any possibility to turn off smarty cache for this particular ones?

Thanks!

Sergey

[lesley]

Its because that the module generates cache files for all different crossing selling options, basically one set of options per product. 500mb of space for a cache is not a lot. 

[vsn]

Ok, understood. How can I deactivate smarty cache for this module? Is it sufficient to add $smarty->caching = false to the respective template file? Or is there another place to control cache per module (I just want to deactivate cache for only this one module). Thanks!

[Kashir2000]

If you really want to disable caching, then one would replace

return $this->display(__FILE__, 'productscategory.tpl', $this->getCacheId($cache_id));

with

return $this->display(__FILE__, 'productscategory.tpl');

Trick is to remove cache_id from display and it will not write caches. Do it in all places where you want to disable caches.

After doing so check if shop did not slow down.

[vsn]

Thanks! Works perfectly without any performance regressions!