Re: Pre-fetching some URLs

> On Thursday, 24 October, 1996 10:06, Ong Beng Hui
> [SMTP:ongbh@staff.singnet.com.sg] wrote:
> > I have allocated 30 Gig per cache but the cache siz
> > never grow past 15 Gig.
>
> I have seen a lot of messages where people state that their cache never
> fills. Whilst 30 Gib maybe a different league I had the same problem here,
> my cache would never fill.
>
> I found that the default squid.conf (1.0.17) would only ever cache a
> document for a maxium of 3 days, even if the file hadn't been changed for
> years.
>
> After a bit of playing around I found if I uncommented the default
> ttl_pattern (max ttl of 30 days) lines from squid.conf that my cache did
> start filling up at a more reasonable rate:
>
> #ttl_pattern ^http:// 1440 20% 43200
> #ttl_pattern ^ftp:// 10080 20% 43200
> #ttl_pattern/i \.gif$ 2880 50% 43200
> #ttl_pattern /cgi-bin/ 0 0% 43200
>
> I suspect that a lot of people who install squid, run it with the default
> configuration initially to see how things work while they get a handle on
> the operation of things. Then go back and fine tune their parameters.
>

   I had always thought that the commented lines in squid.conf were the
actual default wired in squid. Looks like this is not true. It is very
disturbing.

   Claude.

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