[squid-users] Squid, storage size and other questions...

I was wondering how good can be having a huge storage size for caching.
I mean: having, let's say, about 2 Terabytes of cache storage size can
be helpful? Or do I have any kind of problems (speaking about FD for
example)? Are there any studies on this matter?

Going on...is it better, assuming to have such a big storage size,
creating many cache directories (thus, I think, squid whenever needs to
take anything from the cache can start many parallel search tasks on
smaller search indexes, or Am I wrong?) or not?

Looking at the squid conf, it seems that I can only specify a max objetc
size for each cache dir, right? Am I missing something?
This question deals with the idea of making two different cache dir, one
for normal web doc and the other one for big multimedia files, thus I
could even use two different replacement policies for each cache dir
(let's say GDS for web doc and LRU for multimedia files), but it seems
like I cannot specify different replacement policies for different cache
dir right?

Thus, here comes the final question, I was thinking to use two squid on
the same machine, one like frontend to the other. The frontend one will
cache web doc using GDS and the other squid will cache multimedia stuff
using LRU. Both squid communicate with each other using ICP. But here
comes the question: whenever the frontend squid ask to the other squid
via ICP a multimedia file then the frontend squid will cache the file
itself too right? This would be a waste of space moreover it will be
unuseful two have two different squid for different caching stuff!

Any suggestion/answer?!?!

TIA!

Marco Crucianelli
Received on Wed Feb 09 2005 - 06:15:10 MST