Re: storeGetSwapSpace

I am working on a project about a special removal policy in WWW cache. The
professor who supervises my research want me to implement this removal
policy in a popular cache program and that is Squid.

Since it is my first time to read the source code of a large program, he
told me to learn Squid by changing its removal policy code to something
other than its original LRU(?) with expiration and then simulate them to
replicate the results other people had reached.

$0.02, (two cents? what does this mean?)

Yee Man Chan

On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> Yee Man Chan wrote:
>
> > ... I want to do pure LRU, pure LFU, pure SIZE, etc ..
>
> Just curious, why would you want to do that?
>
> There are already quite a few papers out there that study and compare all
> these algorithms. Also, for real (i.e. large) caches all good algorithms give
> about the same hit ratios. There is not much one can optimize in terms of HRs
> when "everything" is already cached.
>
> Think about a large, Pure-LRU-TH-driven cache. Most purged documents are,
> say, 4-5 days old. Thus, you are not choosing victims among "good" and "very
> good" documents, but only among "very bad" ones.. Any reasonable algorithm
> will perform about the same because it does not matter which "very bad"
> document to purge.
>
> Most of the algorithms you have mentioned (and many others) came from
> Databases and OSes where caches are relatively small and "hot".
>
> $0.02,
>
> Alex.
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 05 1998 - 13:19:52 MST