Re: [squid-users] Does Squid move objects from disk to RAM?

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:56:25 +0200

> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Brett Glass wrote:
> >Does Squid "promote" objects from disk to RAM?
> >And if not, why not?

On 01.07 00:48, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> The OS already have them cached in the disk cache providing relatively
> fast access (but indeed not as fast as if it was in the Squid cache_mem),
> so this hasn't been given a high priority to implement. For normal
> Internet proxies this isn't very important, but in accelerator setups it
> may become a noticeable bottleneck.
>
> It is planned to implement a real RAM based cache in Squid, it just isn't
> really there yet.

What about using memory cache? AFAIK it does keep fetched files (from the
network or from disks) in the memory, it just doesn't fetch any files from
disk explicitly. Am I right?

-- 
Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/
Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address.
Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu.
2B|!2B, that's a question!
Received on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 01:56:27 MDT

This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Mon Aug 01 2005 - 12:00:01 MDT