Re: [PATCH] external ACL non-caching update - round 2

On 26/01/11 00:33, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Admin configure ttl=0 and/or negative_ttl=0 to prevent Squid storing the
> ACL lookup results. The problem is that results still get cached and
> re-used for the grace= period or one second, whichever is larger.
>
> Also, in the event where two or more requests with identical details
> needing to be looked up at the same time there is an optimization which
> will merge and share one lookup result for all these requests.
>
> In most situations this result sharing is beneficial, however when a
> unique result is wanted it can cause problems.
>
>
> This patch makes ttl=0 and negative_ttl=0 prevent their respective OK
> and ERR results from being stored into the helper result cache. Sharing
> is still performed for overlapping duplicate requests.
>
> When cache=0 is configured, no caching or sharing of results is
> performed at all.

Applied to squid-3 after 10+ days no objections.

Amos

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