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Nov 5, 2016
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When / how do expired cache items get deleted
When you add an item to the cache with an expiry date on it does it automatically get deleted eventually? If so how is this accomplished?
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Thanks @willvincent. So laravel doesn't do it on its own. Will write a console command then
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@stueynet That package is a console command.
(Though, to be fair, it doesn't appear to work with anything newer than 5.1...)
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Most cache are LRU based. Items get deleted(evicted) as an when required, as an example, to free memory for new items. I don't think Laravel's disk(file) based cache has a eviction policy.
If using any other driver (apc/memcached/redis) they will have a built in eviction system, so you need not worry. For disk based cache, you can rely on commands/packages etc...
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Ah that's interesting. Ok. Might just suck it up and switch to redis.
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I would have thought any modern framework would automatically purge cache from time to time especially laravel.
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@jlrdw it does, just not file cache.
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FYI .. just tried jdavidbakr/laravel-cache-garbage-collector now with laravel 5.4 and it works
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For those who are still looking for a way to delete only expired cache files, I created a Laravel package. It deletes all expired cache files and empty folders. It also give a nice feedback about how many cache file deleted and how much disk space cleared. Here is the link to the package - https://packagist.org/packages/arifhp86/laravel-clear-expired-cache-file
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