Re: [squid-users] Re: Cache compression

From: Hussam Al-Tayeb <hussam_at_visp.net.lb>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:09:57 +0300

On Monday 13 May 2013 02:04:16 babajaga wrote:
> Good idea.
> It should not be too complicated to modify "storeUfsWrite"/"storeUfsRead"
> for example to include some type of compression.
> However, question is, how effective it would be, as there are many graphic
> file types, not easily compressable. So it would result in a lot of wasted
> CPU cycles.
>
> A simpler solution might be the usage of a compressing proxy on top of
> squid. So squid will cache compressed files in all FS available, without any
> patches.
>
>
>
> --

Why? It'll just cost CPU usage. storage is cheap nowadays anyways. you can
just buy larger capacity disks.
Received on Mon May 13 2013 - 10:10:09 MDT

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