MediaBin Cache Education Needed

System

Hi,

I need someone to school me on the MediaBin Cache concept.

This morning our MediaBin died because the L:\ drive on MediaBin ran out of disk space.

MediaBin writes a cache image to the L:\MBCache folder and could not. That was the last logged error because the MBPServer process hung. Upon investigating the Enterprise Manager Cache tab I found the following.

Available = 0KB
Total Cache = 1.78GB
Current Cache = 8GB+

How can that be so? If we have our Total Cache value set at a little under 2GB, why was our cache exceeding the Total Cache?

Okay, on a side adventure, we have the entire L:\ drive dedicated to the cache and should have ~8GB available. Oddly however, when I go into the Enterprise Manager Cache tab, I can’t make the cache bigger than what is available space. So, I wittingly clicked the “Clear Cache” button and the cache started getting smaller. I finally set it at about 4GB but, the problem is that there are files that automatically start showing up in the cache, so I can never get it clean enough to dedicate all 8GB to it.

When does an asset get cached?

What is auto populating in there and how do I mitigate that activity?

Maybe I should update the mbsetting table directly with a value of 8000?

Thanks again.

Stacy

lyman

To make sure it is really empty if the machine is being used more or less continuously, I would suggest removing caching altogether via the MeM, and then manually cleaning the directory after all pending jobs have had a chance to complete.

Cheers,

Lyman Hurd