[SQU] Squid's Memory Management

Greetings!

I am styding the squid code.
I am interested in knowing how
squid can manange lots of data structures using
very little physical memory. For example,
in the 2nd bakeoff, the squid box uses 512MB RAM
and has 24G of disk cache. Out of the 512MB,
128MB is used for memory cache. That leaves
384MB for code and data structures. I would
think it will take lots of space to maintain
the "meta-data" of all the cached objects,
right?

If meta-data is kept mostly on disk, then
handling a hit will require reading the
meta-data from disk and then handling the hit,
right?

--simy

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Received on Mon Aug 14 2000 - 09:23:15 MDT