[Geoserver-users] Need help troubleshooting caching issue

[Clark E. <cen...@gm...>]

Hi,
I have a server running 1.7.5 and am basically running the packaged version
with Jetty.  Currently I'm displaying three shape files on a openlayers map,
and I'm referencing each shape using the geo web cache plugin.  Two of the
files work great, but the third one all I see is this warning: "12 Jun
09:38:47 ERROR [geowebcache.GeoWebCacheDispatcher] - Thread 17 Unknown layer
metis:parcels_combined. Check the logfiles, it may not have loaded
properly."

This third shape file is huge, as I've combined a state's worth of parcel
shape files to form a big one coming in at 665mb (that's just the .shp
file).  If I don't use the caching url by changing
"/geoserver/gwc/service/wms?" to "/geoserver/wms?" it works fine, so it has
something to do with the caching plugin.

When I go to the demo page for the cache as referenced in documentation the
layer isn't there.  I have reloaded and done everything I can think of but
the caching stuff just isn't aware of that layer.  Is there a parameter
somewhere that tells the cache stuff what criteria is uses to serve a
layer?  Maybe it's just a bad idea with this big of a shape file to do
this?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Clark