Option to flush or expire content.

Allow for fine control over what gets flushed ASAP and what will be queued to be flushed (by changing the expired time in the database). Places where you would have the option to go either way.

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Would be a hackish implementation of this feature request #579720: minimum & maximum cache expiration times; how often you run cron would be determine the minimum cache lifetime.