Hi All,

We deployed a WebSphere Commerce solution using extended sites store model (MadisonsFEP), actually we're using 10 e-sites, these stores are running OK at the moment and the performance of my servers is OK, but it would be better, we realized one possible problem, the dynacache usage.

Every store has 7 main categories with average length of 5 sub-categories, for every category we have 4 facets ( eg. material, color, brand, price ) with average length of 5 options.

The Problem:

We're using the OOTB cachespec.xml which creates a cache entry for every request to SearchDisplay which contains categoryId, but also is creating entries for facets, so I expected 10*7*5 = 350 cache entries for categories but I'm calculating we'll have 10*7*5*4*5 = 7000 additional entries against to the 350 entries that we expected and as we're using pricerules (new feature in WC7) with 5 pricelists for every store, the cache entry size needed for my categories will be 7350*5 = 36750. I know this is the worst-case scenario but my point is we're spending more cache entries if we continue using the same configuration.

Does anyone have had a similar problem?  I’d like to know how it was solved

Raul