Re: squid disk cache replacement policy

Brian Beuning wrote:
>
> I am looking for the code in squid that decides which files to
> remove when the disk cache is full. Can someone point me
> to this code? It does not seem to be working how I would
> like it to.

The store replacement is done in store.c:storeMaintainSwapSpace()
(ignore the comment at the top, it is vay old. Read the code.). The code
does a form of "Modified LRU with a small bias to expired objects".

In what way does it not work like you'd like it to?

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker