Article - CS37763

Recommended values for Cache Size or Cache Limit in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Creo Elements/Pro 5.0, Creo Parametric and Windchill Workgroup Manager Cache Size

Modified: 25-Jun-2025   


Applies To

  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
  • Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 12.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 9.0 to 11.2
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 11.1
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.0 to 11.2
  • PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager

Description

  • What is the recommended value for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 M050 or earlier config.pro option dm_cache_size
  • What is the recommended value for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 M060+, Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 and Creo Parametric config.pro option dm_cache_limit
  • What is the recommended value for Windchill Workgroup Manager preference <WGM>\wgmclient.ini\cache.size
  • When is client cache cleanup executed?
  • Automatic cleaning of cache
  • How to automatically trim down the size and number of cached content files
  • How to disable automatic cleaning of cached content files
  • What does this config.pro dm_cache_limit cache mean? Why is there such a restriction? Wouldn’t it be better to increase it?
  • The size of local cache folder exceeded the value of cache.size.
    • Is there any other setting that will limit the cache size?
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