How to manually build mysql cache

Question

I have a table of over 150,000 rows of which most would be updated daily. I have mysql caching turned on so the pages load faster however everytime the database is updated

Answer 1

150,000 rows is really small in terms of table size.

Is your table properly indexed?

How are you doing the update, are you scheduling and/or throttling the updates or just letting it go all at once?

The slowdown is most likely happening because you are trying to update too many rows at once w/o letting the server catch a breath. Try throttling the updates.