Re: [squid-users] Memory Vs Disk cache

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 19.03, Roger Joseph wrote:

> Why I asked is that since we know RAM access is way ahead. And 8 GB
> ram or 4GB ram can allocate maybe towards a ram cache (not ram
> drive).

What kind of CPU are you using?

It it is a 32 bit CPU then addressing more than 3GB memory in the same
process is not technically fasible and you would be better off using
a ram drive.

> 1. what is the max ram usage of squid.

Depends on how large processes your hardware architecture and kernel
allows.

> 2. Is there a way in the current squid version to increase the wait
> of memory cache objects then if object not found check siblings.

You can run Squid without a disk cache, only using memory cache. See
the "null" cache_dir type.

Regards
Henrik

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