Re: [squid-users] Split caching by size

Its a per-cache_dir option in Squid-2.7 and above; I'm not sure about 3.

Adrian

2009/5/20 Jason Spegal <jspegal_at_comcast.net>:
> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
Received on Wed May 20 2009 - 06:22:52 MDT