Re: [squid-users] memory only caching

It just posted few week ago.....

At 11:48 PM 7/25/02 -0700, Prakash Khemani wrote:

>I have Squid Version 2.4.STABLE4 running on freebsd 4.4. I want to use
>it as a small but fast memory only HTTP cache. I don't want the squid
>cache to hit the disks for any reason or at least I want to make sure
>that the disk hits are as few as possible. Also I want to avoid using
>MFS or other RAM based disks because I want to avoid filesystem
>overheads. I don't mind if the squid cache has to rebuilt itself every
>time it is started.
>
>How can I do that?
>
>Can I do it by configuring squid.conf somehow? The following parameters
>look like a possibility to me ...
>
>maximum_object_size
>The help says that "Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on
>disk." What if I make this value 0 KB? That I guess will turn off disk
>caching, but will it also turn off memory caching?
>
>cache_dir
>what if I configure
>cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 0 16 256
>Since the cache size is specified as 0 MB will this prevent squid from
>using the disk as a cache?
>Or
>cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 100 16 256 read-only
>Will the above directive prevent squid from writing to the cache?
>
>Can I disable all logging by saying
>cache_access_log none
>cache_log none
>cache_store_log none
>cache_swap_log none
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Prakash

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Received on Fri Jul 26 2002 - 00:56:21 MDT