Differences between clearing object cache and clearing byte cache

Products

• ProxySG Software - SGOS

Issue/Introduction

You can clear the object cache and the byte cache in the Management Console (Maintenance > Tasks), in the Cache and Statistics Tasks section.

Clearing the byte cache	Clearing the object cache
deletes cached content does not interrupt current connections clears and regenerates core and edge index dictionaries	sets all objects in the cache to expired does not remove expired objects from memory or disk immediately, but a subsequent request for an object is retrieved from the source before it is served clears all objects cached by the appliance, including HTTP and all object files such as JPG and GIF caches