Re: [squid-users] caching videos (flv)

From: Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh_at_gcd.ie>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:32:02 +0100

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Mahesh Ollalwar wrote:

> I have implemented squid to cache videos (.flv) and allocated 45 GB of
> space for cache_dir, my problem here is that, I can store data only upto
> 10-15 days depend upon the video size. Is there any way to store cache
> in compressed format.

It might be possible but you likely wouldn't gain much if anything from it.
FLVs are heavily compressed already so you're unlikely to get much further
compression. Try grabbing a copy of one of those FLVs and running gzip on
it to see.

Gavin
Received on Mon Aug 17 2009 - 11:32:09 MDT

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