Re: [squid-users] DISK vs. MEM clients

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:55:00 +0200

Sadhna.Ahuja@nokia.com wrote:

> I am not clear about the difference between STORE_DISK_CLIENT and
> STORE_MEM_CLIENT. Which one is used under what circumstance?

Isn't that obvious from their names? Hower, the Squid store client is a
hybrid between the two switching between memory and disk as required.
See storeClientType().

> Are there scenarios where an object would be cached in memory, but
> not on disk?

Yes. Negatively cached objects is one, but there is more cases.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Received on Fri Jun 15 2001 - 13:56:48 MDT

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