Re: [squid-users] Split caching by size

Jason Spegal wrote:
> Just tested and verified this. At least in Squid 3.0 minimum_object_size
> affects both memory and disk caches. Anyone know if this is true in 3.1
> as well? Any thoughts as to how to split it? I may be wrong and likely
> am but I recall there was separate minimum_object_size for each cache at
> one time.

Same for all Squid-3 so far.
The per-cache_dir version is awaiting port from Squid-2.

>
> Chris Robertson wrote:
>> Jason Spegal wrote:
>>> How do I configure squid to only cache small objects, say less than
>>> 4mb in memory cache,
>>
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/maximum_object_size_in_memory/
>>
>>> and only objects larger than 4mb to the disk?
>>
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/minimum_object_size/
>>
>>> I want to optimize the cache based on object size. The reasoning is
>>> the small stuff will change often and be accessed the most while the
>>> larger items that tie up bandwidth will not change as often and I can
>>> cache more aggressively. Also this way I minimize disk io and lag. I
>>> am using squid 3.0. While I can see this being done with the disk
>>> cache I am not certain the memory cache can be configured like this
>>> anymore as the options seem to be missing.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jason
>>
>> Chris
>

Amos

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