Re: Squid for caching images only?

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Robert Montgomery wrote:

> I've got a website getting about 30K page views per hour, each page with
> a handfull of small images. What I'd like is to find a way to serve those
> images via apache out of RAM instead of off disk. Will Squid do that?
> If so is it worth doing for maybe 10-15 small images (even though the
> get used ALOT)??

depending on how much RAM you have, they are probably already being pulled
out of memory (via your file system/operating system's caching
mechanisms). if not, yes, that is exactly what squid will do with them.
alternately, you could build a small box, put squid and apache on it, and
then point the url for those images to the new box.

good luck,

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