Re: [squid-users] caching videos (flv)

Mahesh Ollalwar wrote:
>
> Yes I tried running gzip on 8.6Mb file which I got 7.7Mb after compression.
> Can you suggest any other way to achieve this, I want to keep cache for
> 5-6 months.

If you really have 'fully implemented' the youtube caching tricks then
you will probably need a bigger cache.

Amos

>
> ~Mahesh.
>
> Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Mahesh Ollalwar wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have implemented squid to cache videos (.flv) and allocated 45 GB
>>> of space for cache_dir, my problem here is that, I can store data
>>> only upto 10-15 days depend upon the video size. Is there any way to
>>> store cache in compressed format.
>>>
>>
>> It might be possible but you likely wouldn't gain much if anything
>> from it.
>> FLVs are heavily compressed already so you're unlikely to get much
>> further
>> compression. Try grabbing a copy of one of those FLVs and running
>> gzip on
>> it to see.
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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