Re: [squid-users] Squid 2.x maximum_object_size related to memory usage

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On fre, 2007-07-27 at 13:55 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007, rihad wrote:
>>
>>> And if it _can_ cache it, will Squid 2.6 keep it wholly in memory before
>>> finishing the download?
>> Only until you've filled the cache_mem amount of object memory - then it'll
>> start deleting objects from the cache. It can do this for objects which
>> haven't yet been fully received and sent onto the client.
>
> If the object is larger than maximum_object_size_in_memory then the
> memory will be freed while the object is being written to disk, only
> keeping up to 4KB in memory of that object.
>

I knew it! Now it's ok to bump maximum_object size up to the size of a
CD ;-) Thank you, Henrik and Adrian.
Received on Sat Jul 28 2007 - 23:22:56 MDT