Re: [squid-users] lru vs. Heap LRU & LFUDA

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar_at_fantomas.sk>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:38:49 +0100

On 23.12.08 03:55, Nyamul Hassan wrote:
> I've gone through the research documents referred to in the squid config
> file, that compares the performance between different
> cache_replacement_policy. However, both of them appear to be almost 10
> years old!
>
> Given that time, has there been any updates to the internal codes of these
> replacement policies that could change the results if those tests were done
> today?

I don't think so. The issue lies in algorithms, and heap algorithms are
still more effective than old LRU :)

I doubt the situatuion will change before any massive change in computer
technologies, probably related to paralellism, at which time squid will be
much different, if any :)

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