On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:32:35 +1300 (NZDT) "Amos Jeffries" <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there a known reason why the LRU reference age for an LRU cache > > directory sometimes jumps up and down between two levels that > > differ by several days? ... > Hmm, reading that I get a feeling of the memory caching squid does > coming into play. > If I'm right its just old memory-only objects being shoved into the > LRU queue as they become disk objects. I forgot to mention that this is a desktop machine that's rarely up for more than a few days at a time, so objects in memory are going to be very new compared with all the lru ages I mentioned.