[squid-users] Re: How can I get Squid to use more memory?

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:17:48 +1300
Amos Jeffries wrote:

> On 19/11/2011 12:41 p.m., RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:38:03 +1300
> > Amos Jeffries wrote:
e,
> > Are you saying that new objects are not written to disk until they
> > expire from the memory cache? The implication would presumably be
> > that some objects are lost when squid shuts down.
> >
>
> Yes. There is some time spent saving as many as possible to disk
> during the shutdown_timeout, but this rarely gets it all due to being
> configured too short.
>
> Consider though that caching is an entirely optional to start with.
> Things in the cache can be re-fetched as needed from the network. So
> there is no actual loss.

The reason I asked is that I upgraded to 3.1 and I noticed that the
defaults are:

cache_mem 256 MB
maximum_object_size_in_memory 512 KB

It struck me that a SOHO server that's turned-off overnight may cache
next to nothing under 512 K if the memory cache is lost on shutdown.

Is 256 MB small enough for everything to be saved.
Received on Sat Nov 19 2011 - 01:28:33 MST