#images/Home page problem with rails app

[Shanti Subramanyam <Sh...@Sun.COM>]

Will,
 Remember this issue ? We were seeing much less than 3 images/home page 
retrieved and so hacked the misc. stats to reduce the count to 2.5. I 
was doing some debugging in development mode and found that I was 
getting close to 3. So I set "config.action_controller.perform_caching = 
false" in production.rb and indeed the #images is much higher now - 2.97 
for a 50 user run.

All my googling didn't tell me what exactly happens with this 
perform_caching happens. The only info I found was that rails will cache 
the results of a sql query for the duration of this request and re-use 
the results if the same query is executed again. But I can't imagine why 
this should have any impact on the images included in the home page ?

Shanti