Most time spent during a search is used for the reading of data from a hard drive. Therefore the search is faster if results can be cached in a working memory.

Caching is especially recommended for use with the search server.

	Note
	When restarting the PARTdataManager or the search server the cache is lost. Therefore, an effective caching is only possible within a search server, since this is usually only restarted in extreme cases.

	Note
	Beside the here described caching there is still another between the index files and the search server. Important information on this is found under Section 1.3.9.9.3.6, “ Caching index files of $CADENAS_DATA on PARTapplicationServer ”.

In the configuration file geomsearch.cfg there are different sections for performing the caching:

In the following the sections are explained separately: