Re: [squid-users] Caching Video Content

From: Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <ildefonso.camargo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 12:10:38 +1930

Hi!

On 5/21/09, Dror Galron <dror.galron_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering implementing Squid as my web cache for Video streams
> (YouTube etc).
> I am going to configure Squid over SAN centralized storage.
> I am aware of the additional plug-in required to "normalize" YouTube URL's.

I think you mean this one: http://cachevideos.com/ , right?

> I have few questions:
> 1) Are there any example installations of Squid as Video oriented cache server?
> 2) If I implement Squid peering (either digest or ICAP), how does
> Squid solves "popular object" problem, when one cache within the
> cluster serves the most popular movie. As far as I understand, in this
> case all requests for that movie would be served from one particular
> server; this will cause overloading of that server.
> 3) Are there any limitations / recommendations for maximal storage
> size that has many separate physical disks?
> 4) Are there any limitations regarding maximal cached object size?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dror
>
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