Run a cron job that executes the query and updates the cache at an interval shorter than the expiration time for the cached item.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Haes <haes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using memcached together with Django to speed up the database > queries. One of my Django views (page) uses a query that takes over 20 > sec. Normally this query hits the memcached cache and the data is > served almost instantly. The problem now is that if the cache expires, > the next person accessing this page will have to wait about 20 seconds > for it to load which is not really acceptable for me. > > Is there a way to update the memcached data before it times out, in a > way that this query always hits the cache? > > Thanks for any hints. > > Cheers. > -- awl
