Re: cache size no bigger than 60% of available space

On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Nico Tranquilli wrote:

> I have been running Squid for about a month on a dedicated machine
> with 10Gbyte spread across 5 different filesystems. It handles an avarage
> of 100 thousands requests per day but the cache size doesn't grow over, say,
> 60% of the available space (the cache_swap is set to 10000,
> the cache_swap_low to 90% and the cache_swap_high to 95%). It seems as though
> the cleaned objects are more than newer ones...
> any clue ?

Yeah, I got that as well until I played around with the TTL to make the
objects stay in the cache longer. There seems to be a relationship between
the TTL of the objects and the cache activity that affects how full the
cache gets. I had 200MB assigned as my cache and it never got above 30MB
until I increased the max TTL from 3 days to 14 days. That was with an
older 1.0.x version of Squid, I can't say if the latest version does the
same thing.

Cheers.
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Received on Fri Oct 11 1996 - 02:11:38 MDT