Re: [squid-users] Caching of Big objects (bigger than memory limit)

Thanks Amos, Yeah - forgot to mention that I am on 3.1.6, latest Deb 6
version.

Cheers,

Pieter

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> On 12/05/11 13:32, Pieter De Wit wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> From my understanding, Squid will add an object into memory, then page
>> it out to disk, as the memory limit get's full. (Barring another 1000
>> checks that I didn't mention :) )
>>
>> My question is, what will happen with an object that is bigger than
>> maximum_object_size_in_memory ?
>
> It goes to disk immediately on arrival and only the window of bytes not yet
> sent to the clients stays in memory.
>
> Some versions of Squid (known for their excessive memory consumption) will
> keep the whole thing in memory until finished, but that bug is fixed in
> current releases.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.12
> Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.7 and 3.1.12.1
>
Received on Thu May 12 2011 - 01:56:10 MDT