On Fri, Jul 27, 2007, rihad wrote: > Ok, now I understand that, if you have cache_mem of, say, 300 mb, it's > never a good idea to make maximum_object_size = 64 MB as an average of > 10-20 concurrent downloads will surely fill the memory. I hoped Squid > would only keep in memory the buffer (up to read_ahead_gap) necessary > for relaying the file being downloaded to the client, while still > writing it on the disk in the process. The memory cache and the disk cache are pretty seperate. squid can remove a memory from being in the "memory cache" (ie, the whole object is in memory) whilst still writing it to disk as it comes off the network. I don't believe anyone's done much work investigating Squid's behaviour with small and large memory objects. Adrian
