Re: [squid-users] How big should be cache_dir ?

> I understand that. But I realized that for 100 000 entries in the cache,
> it takes around 15MB of memory, under quite a heavy load (around 40 HTTP
> request per second), which I will never have in the real environment.
>
> I didn't think 15MB of RAM is excessive... But once again, if I have 10
> times the number of entries, will I need 10 times the RAM?

        No : -->

                   http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#how-much-ram
>
> My ultimate goal would be to keep the documents forever, or almost. But
> without going over a disk space limit, and getting rid of leat recently
> used documents...
>
> I could add a temporary store function to the script used to create the
> documents, but since squid and its cache can do the same thing...
>
> Thank's for you answer,
>
> Martin Sévigny
>

  M.
Received on Thu Jan 12 2006 - 09:56:10 MST