Re: [squid-users] Best replacement policy for big cache dir

On Thursday 10 July 2003 06.36, zulkarnain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a big cache_dir (136GB) which is currently used
> 122GB (89%). Each day the increasement of the objects
> in cache around 1-2GB. I would like to know the best
> replacement policy for this cache dir. Any help will
> be great.

Does not matter much for a cache of this length (size / turnover). I
would use the standard lru algorithm as it is slighly more efficient
in terms of CPU and memory usage than the heap based policies.

The policy mostly matters on small caches. On larger caches they all
behave more or less the same. See the paper references in
squid.conf.default.

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