Re: [squid-users] Re: Cache for mp3 and ogg in memory...

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:23:34 +0100

> Am 2008-01-24 12:06:03, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
> > On 19.01.08 18:26, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > > I have killed a hardisk (160 GByte) again because to heavy traffic of
> > > "gnump3d". The problem is, that the "natural" caching of linux does
> > > not work, even if I have only arround 700 MByte of songs I hear all the
> > > time and the installed memory is 2 GByte. The access of gnump3d on the
> > > harddisk is very heavy, specialy if more then 4 clients use it the same
> > > time... -- and the Media-Server is working 24/7 and use already a
> > > Hardware Raid-1 with HotFix!
> >
> > I am not aware of how does gnump3d work, but can't that be because the
> > client always fetches the same URI which is not cacheable?

On 26.01.08 00:42, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> You mean a POST request? -- I do not know.
>
> But right, it is always the same URI (I have one for the
> original 192kBit and one for a reduced quality 96kBit).

and it has always different content. So if you cache that, you will store
something different each time. Better not to cache that at all.

I guess that would require support for streming data in squid.

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