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. Thats probably a smarter move than trying to squeeze a HTTP proxy inline just yet. :) adrian 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 > > > -- > Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ > ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### > Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 > 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi > 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
