From a56773245b8926ddb73d957cf725aa83c5e5a9ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Graham Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 10:12:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [1.7.x] Clarified that LocMemCache is per-process; refs #7639. Thanks projectgus for the suggestion. Backport of c37000ab04 from master --- docs/topics/cache.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt index 0d8f957d527..6970ee85e23 100644 --- a/docs/topics/cache.txt +++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt @@ -296,8 +296,9 @@ Local-memory caching This is the default cache if another is not specified in your settings file. If you want the speed advantages of in-memory caching but don't have the capability of running Memcached, consider the local-memory cache backend. This cache is -multi-process and thread-safe. To use it, set :setting:`BACKEND ` -to ``"django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache"``. For example:: +per-process (see below) and thread-safe. To use it, set :setting:`BACKEND +` to ``"django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache"``. For +example:: CACHES = { 'default': {