# Timed\_fragment\_cache Slowdown! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 3, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/timed-fragment-cache-slowdown/124946 "2008-01-03T23:09:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dcgrigsby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@dcgrigsby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dcgrigsby)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/timed-fragment-cache-slowdown/124946/1 "2008-01-03T23:09:06Z")
Hi, I’ve implemented timed\_fragment\_cache in an app I’m working on. It works fine, but my entire app has slowed down. Many pages where I use to get 60 req/sec, are now at 15-20 req/sec and the percentage of processing time spent rendering is now 40-50% higher. Most of these pages use regular fragment caching; I’m using timed\_fragment\_cache on one fragment only. I really need help… any ideas or alternatives to timed\_fragment\_cache that don’t use memcache? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![dcgrigsby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@dcgrigsby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dcgrigsby)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/timed-fragment-cache-slowdown/124946/2 "2008-01-05T08:27:31Z")
I’ve tried turning off caching altogether and I’ve noticed that performance is equivalent when timed\_fragment\_cache is installed. Is the plugin disabling caching?