Amos, I want to find out what is filling my disk at 2-3MB/s. If there is no cache related information in the response header, will squid write the response to the disk? In squid wiki, I found the following sentences: Responses with Cache-Control: Private are NOT cachable. Responses with Cache-Control: No-Cache are NOT cachable. Responses with Cache-Control: No-Store are NOT cachable. Responses for requests with an Authorization header are cachable ONLY if the reponse includes Cache-Control: Public. The following HTTP status codes are cachable: 200 OK 203 Non-Authoritative Information 300 Multiple Choices 301 Moved Permanently 410 Gone My question is: If there is no Cache-control related information, such as the following header Server nginx/0.8.54 Date Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:56:29 GMT Content-Type application/json; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length 1218 X-Cache MISS from zw12squid.my.com X-Cache-Lookup MISS from zw12squid.my.com:80 Via 1.0 zw12squid.my.com (squid/3.1.12) Connection keep-alive will squid save it to disk? Can you give me a detailed description about when will squid save the object to disk? thanks a lot for your kind help. 2011/8/18 Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 19/08/11 02:10, Chen Bangzhong wrote: >> >> thanks. >> >> Before I try the gateway squid solution, I want to change one of my >> squid to use memory cache only. I have 16GB RAM. now cache_mem is set >> to 5GB. >> >> I will try to increase it to 12GB and set cache_dir to null schma. I >> do this because I am sure that my hot objects can be saved in RAM, >> non-hot objects created by robots will stale and the memory will be >> reused. >> >> Is that all I need to set squid to be a memory cache? >> > > You have squid-3.1, so only comment out the cache_dir lines and set > cache_mem to something large. null dir schema no longer exists. > > Remember that cache_mem still has an index to account for and the usual > active traffic buffering stays present. Also that reconfigure will wipe the > RAM cache to empty. > > Amos > -- > Please be using > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.14 > Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.10 >