Re: [squid-users] correct cache management...

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:10:41 +0100

On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13.59, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> > If properly configured, Squid will automatically make space
> > for new objects
> > when the alloted space is filled.
>
> You mean it cleares the "old" objects and thus creates space available for
> newer ones?

Yes.

> > A "good" size of a cache depends on how much your users surf.
> > You should have
> > at least a couple of days worth of disk storage. There is
> > rarely need for
> > more than a week of storage.
>
> OK. How do I get an idea of the amount (in MBytes) I should be using? Is
> there any way to calculate it?

The following should work as a rought estimate I think: Amount of web traffic
downloaded by your users per day * nr_days_to_cache / 3

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Jan 02 2002 - 06:10:50 MST

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