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title: "Changing Cache Configuration Settings"
slug: "changing-cache-configuration-settings"
description: "This document shows how to create and edit cache settings within the System Administration Cache folder. By configuring these settings, these cache definitions can be used to selectively or completely cache entities within Decisions. "
updated: 2024-06-25T20:19:53Z
published: 2024-06-25T20:19:53Z
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# Changing Cache Configuration Settings

## Overview

Cache configurations can be created, edited, and managed from the Cache folder.[Cache definitions](/v9/docs/cache-definitions) can be used to selectively or completely cache aliases, databases, or files at selected intervals.

## Configuring Cache Settings

1. Navigate to the **System > Administration > Cache**to view current cache definitions.By default, definitions exist for caching the most basic elements of the system including memory, sessions, ORM data, and database records.

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2. To edit a cache definition, right-click on a cache definition and select **Edit**.

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3. Caching intervals, policies, and configurations are able to be changed by the user in the **Edit Time Cache Definition** window. These changes will automatically become system policy. For example, setting **Check On Interval Span**to five minutes and clicking OK will automatically configure the system to check the cache every five minutes.

| Time Cache Information | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| Check On Interval Span | Defines the time interval before the cache should be checked for stale objects |
| Interval | Defines how long an object should be kept in cache |
| Policy | Defines how an Interval should be used; if specified to **Since Add**, the object is kept in a MemoryCache for the defined Interval, and if set to **Last Accessed,**the object will be stored in a Sliding Expiration Cache |

It is a best practice to set the Check On Interval Span shorter than the Interval Time.

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