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

It seems there is no real solution for this.

So I was looking into the sourcecode of gnump3d and it seems that I have
to patch it with my own caching system (to develop) which do the stuff.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Am 2008-01-19 18:26:20, schrieb Michelle Konzack:
> Hello,
>
> 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!
>
> What I like to do is to cache those files in a Ramdisk of 1 GByte and
> like to use squid-cache to do the "administration" of it, exactly, I
> want to CACHE and HOLD files with following rules:
>
> 1. most heared songs with highest priority
> (e.g. songs which are heared more then 20 times
> a week should never removed from cache)
> 2. if ram-disk-space is availlable all other songs
>
> and of course, the cached files should never expire...
> (the Media-Server is connected to a "bigger" 3000VA APC-Smart-UPS)
>
> Note 1: Since 1 GByte memories (DDR400) are availlable under 40 Euro
> I can add a third module...
>
> Can this be done with squid?
>
> Note 2: My Idea was already to put the "always heared" songs on a
> Infineon CF-Card of 8 GByte (arround 88 Euro) which is
> definitivly cheaper as replacing all 12 month a harddisk.
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
> Michelle Konzack
> Tamay Dogan Network
>
>
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