[squid-users] Question about PURGE

Hi,

I have an app which sends PURGE's to squid caches on demand or on
document changes. It testing this works fine and I am making PURGE
requests on document changes as part of a publish event. 200 or 404
responses are almost instantaneous as all of the servers are on the same
network.

Hoe does squid execute the PURGE internally? Does it mark the object in
the cache to be PURGE'd the next time the object is requested or does it
remove as soon the item when the PURGE request is made? Will there be
situations when a PURGE requests might time out on a busy Squid? It is
advisable to have my publisher Queue up PURGE requests in a separate
thread or process?

Thanks,
John

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Received on Mon Nov 09 2009 - 11:53:55 MST