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

Yes I tried running gzip on 8.6Mb file which I got 7.7Mb after compression.
Can you suggest any other way to achieve this, I want to keep cache for
5-6 months.

~Mahesh.

Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Mahesh Ollalwar wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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Received on Mon Aug 17 2009 - 11:53:29 MDT