Re: RAM-only cache possible?

Nope. Squid needs space in the cache directory to be able to keep the
objects cached in ram. The in-memory cache is currently mostly only a
shadow cache of the disk cache. This means for example that when an
object is deleted from the disk cache it is also deleted from the memory
cache.

It should however not be too hard to change the code to perform memory
caching only. Have never attempted doing so so I cannot exacly what is
required.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
alowe@hislora.com.au wrote:
> 
> and make the cache dir very small? 1Mb? that way nothing is
> really cached?
>
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> 
> > Steve Snyder wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it possible to have a RAM-only Squid (v2.3S3) cache?
> >
> > Not without changing the code.
> >
> > It might be possible in an future version.
> >
> > For the time being, the closest you can get without chainging the code
> > is to have the cache on a ram-disk.
> >
> > --
> > Henrik Nordstrom
> > Squid hacker
> >