Redirecting Cache Folder

Hi everybody,

this solution applies only to network user accounts (Home folder on server) configuration and Leopard on Workstations.That doesn’t work with Tiger Workstations.

Safari, Firefox, MS Office, Pages etc… have a cache folder. This cache is in the User_Home_Folder/library/Caches located on the server. If you have a hundred users logged in on your server and using a web browser, their cache folder is being re-written non-stop with temporary files. This cache folder size increases with time. That creates heavy network communication between your workstations and server.

The solution is on page 13 of Leopard Server Quickstart. The goal is to redirect the cache locally on the user workstation.

In my case, CPU loads went from %130 to %20.