We are using appfabric as the 2ndlevel cache for an NHibernate asp.net application comprising a customer facing website and an admin website. They are both connected to the same cache so when admin updates something, the customer facing site is updated.

It seems to be working OK - we have a CacheCLuster on a seperate server and all is well but we want to enable localcache to get better performance, however, it dosnt seem to be working.

We have enabled it like this...

  bool UseLocalCache = 
  int LocalCacheObjectCount = int.MaxValue;
  TimeSpan LocalCacheDefaultTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(3);
  DataCacheLocalCacheInvalidationPolicy LocalCacheInvalidationPolicy = DataCacheLocalCacheInvalidationPolicy.TimeoutBased;

        if (UseLocalCache)
        {
            configuration.LocalCacheProperties =
                new DataCacheLocalCacheProperties(
                    LocalCacheObjectCount,
                    LocalCacheDefaultTimeout,
                    LocalCacheInvalidationPolicy
                    );

          //  configuration.NotificationProperties =  new DataCacheNotificationProperties(500, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(300));
        }

Initially we tried using a timeout invalidation policy (3mins) and our app felt like it was running faster. HOWEVER, we noticed that if we changed something in the admin site, it was immediatley updated in the live site. As we are using timeouts not notifications, this demonstrates that the local cache isnt being queried (or is, but is always missing).

The cache.GetType().Name returns "LocalCache" - so the factory has made a local cache.

Running "Get-Cache-Statistics MyCache" in PS on my dev environment (asp.net app running local from vs2008, cache cluster running on a seperate w2k8 machine) show a handful of Request Counts. However, on the Production environment, the Request Count increases dramaticaly.

We tried following the method here to se the cache cliebt-server traffic... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabriccat/archive/2010/09/20/appfabric-cache-peeking-into-client-amp-server-wcf-communication.aspx but the log file had nothing but the initial header in it - i.e no loggin either.

I cant find anything in SO or Google.

Have we done something wrong? Have we got a screwy install of AppFabric - we installed it via WebPlatform Installer - I think? (note: the IIS box running ASp.net isnt in yhe cluster - it is just the client).

Any insights greatfully received!