How to enhance the responsiveness of the cache?
Apache Cocoon has a sophisticated cache. When running Forrest in dynamic mode, the initial visitor will receive slower response. The very first page served will cause Cocoon to cache the pipelines. Later requests will re-use those cached components and add others to the cache. A good technique is to warm up the cache after the forrest webapp has been re-started. Requesting the front page alone will populate the cache with the common items used for other pages. Using a spider such as wget, will warm up everything. The Cocoon cache and sitemaps can be tuned. See Cocoon Performance Tips and CocoonPerformance and the “Object Stores” section of main/webapp/WEB-INF/cocoon.xconf Responsiveness can be further enhanced by utilising a transparent proxy server, e.g. Apache HTTP Server as a frontend. See CocoonAndApacheModProxy.
