Re: [squid-users] limitting squid cache!!!

On Sunday 25 May 2003 14.23, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sunday 25 May 2003 10.42, Masood Ahmad Shah wrote:
> > and what about heap LFUDA and heap GDFS, these also used FIFO
> > tehcnique or LIFE. I think better is heap LFUDA with both FIFO
> > and LIFE + most hit objects will always in cache ....
>
> LFUDA and GDSF uses LDUDA and GDSF respecively. See the research
> paper references in the documentation for details on these two
> algorithms.
>
> Note: Squid normally uses the LRU algorithm. Not FIFO. It can be
> said LRU approximates FIFO for very large caches or that FIFO
> approximates LRU for very large caches. In fact all reasonable
> cache removal policies approximates LRU for very large caches.

Sorry, slightly wrong word.. the correct word is approaches.

Regards
Henrik

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