Re: [squid-users] Cache for mp3 and ogg in memory...

Hi Adrian,

Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd first give ZFS a shot - either through opensolaris or FreeBSD.
> It has slightly saner memory caching logic (which eats RAM for breakfast
> mind you) that may suit this workload a little better.

Since you mentioned ZFS, I have been thinking for some time now about
deploying a Squid box with a ZFS cache either on a single drive or a
separate drive.

>
> Thats probably a smarter move than trying to squeeze a HTTP proxy
> inline just yet. :)

Do you think that this ZFS file system scales better than current file
systems if used for caching such as Squid?

Do you have any statistics?

Thanking you...

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> adrian
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> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have killed a hardisk (160 GByte) again because to heavy traffic of
>> "gnump3d". The problem is, that the "natural" caching of linux does
>> not work, even if I have only arround 700 MByte of songs I hear all the
>> time and the installed memory is 2 GByte. The access of gnump3d on the
>> harddisk is very heavy, specialy if more then 4 clients use it the same
>> time... -- and the Media-Server is working 24/7 and use already a
>> Hardware Raid-1 with HotFix!
>>
>> What I like to do is to cache those files in a Ramdisk of 1 GByte and
>> like to use squid-cache to do the "administration" of it, exactly, I
>> want to CACHE and HOLD files with following rules:
>>
>> 1. most heared songs with highest priority
>> (e.g. songs which are heared more then 20 times
>> a week should never removed from cache)
>> 2. if ram-disk-space is availlable all other songs
>>
>> and of course, the cached files should never expire...
>> (the Media-Server is connected to a "bigger" 3000VA APC-Smart-UPS)
>>
>> Note 1: Since 1 GByte memories (DDR400) are availlable under 40 Euro
>> I can add a third module...
>>
>> Can this be done with squid?
>>
>> Note 2: My Idea was already to put the "always heared" songs on a
>> Infineon CF-Card of 8 GByte (arround 88 Euro) which is
>> definitivly cheaper as replacing all 12 month a harddisk.
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
>> Michelle Konzack
>> Tamay Dogan Network
>>
>>
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