Docs: following the Auth guide with Partial Prefetching causes extra user lookups on linked pages

What is the documentation issue?

The Authentication with Cache Components guide has you look up the current user on the server (getCurrentUser, including a database read) and wrap that in 'use cache: private' so authenticated pages can be ready before you click.

Opening one page that links to other pages which also call getCurrentUser() fires several server requests, each looking up the user again. I expected one lookup for the page I was on.

'use cache: private' avoids a second session read inside a single request. Prefetched pages are separate requests, so each one fetches the user again.

This showed up with Partial Prefetching (Step 6). Without it, those extra requests mostly don’t happen.

It would help if the docs showed how to follow this pattern without a user lookup per link in the nav.

Is there any context that might help us understand?

Please correct me if Im missing something.

Does the docs page already exist? Please link to it.

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/authentication-with-cache-components