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

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 00:01:09 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> Hmm how much is OS filesystem cache slower?

Not much, but the overhead for Squid to access it is quite significant
(internal to Squid). This because Squid assumes the data is on disk and
schedules an async read operation to read it in.

> I'd like to use OS fs cache for this instead. Otherwise system will have
> data doubly cached in RAM (once in fs cache and once in squid). Than's
> wasteful.

Instead of what? To me it looks like you are asking to have it the way it
already is?

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 16:01:13 MDT

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