Publish and render options

Explains how to optimize publishing and rendering for your system.

To optimize performance, the Content Manager caches .NET Tridion Object Model objects while rendering.

This table describes the publish and render settings you can configure in the MMC Snap-in:

SettingValues
Cache levelThis value defines what items will be cached. Values are:
  • No caching
  • Schemas and templates
  • All TCM objects except for Components and Pages
  • All TCM objects except for Pages (default)
  • All TCM objects
Cache lifetimeThe period in which the cache is active:
During a render action
the cache is flushed after each item is rendered
During publish transaction (default)
The cache is only flushed when the entire published transaction is finished
Maximum cached objects

The maximum number of cached items. Once this number of objects is reached, the first cached object is removed from the cache and the new object is added.

Tune this value so that the handle and memory use is acceptable during publishing. Note that the handle and memory usage of the Content Manager COM+ application is proportional to the maximum number of cached objects times the number of Publisher threads (assuming that the cache fills completely). This setting defaults to the value 250.