Re: [squid-users] Does Squid move objects from disk to RAM?

At 04:36 AM 7/1/2005, Kinkie wrote:

>Huh? Just put your cache_dir in a ramdisk or tmpfs (i.e. /dev/shm on
>recent Linuxes, /tmp on Solaris, don't really know about other OSes..)

If you do that, you lose it when you reboot. And unless it's your
entire cache, you have to split between disk and RAM. The split
will occur at random, so you won't be able to keep the most
popular objects in RAM.

In short, you can't implement a classic multilevel cache this way.

--Brett
Received on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 20:00:53 MDT