Squid stores two pieces of information on the disk for each URL: 1. the response body is cached in a file on the disk, and 2. an "Internal Marker Object" that is used to locate the appropriate cached page for a URL based on the "Vary" headers is stored in a separate file The 40GB space that you allocate for the cache_dir is used to store the two files above for each URL that hits Squid. Hope that helps! On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 07:19 -0800, Hung Nguyen wrote: > Hello, squid Users > I'm using squid and I have many question that I myself cannot reply. One > thing I want to know is if I define cache_dir and give squid 40 GB > diskspace, what squid will do with that space?? How can squid search for > a 10Kb object in 40 GB file ? > > Thanks!
