> I understand that. But I realized that for 100 000 entries in the cache, > it takes around 15MB of memory, under quite a heavy load (around 40 HTTP > request per second), which I will never have in the real environment. > > I didn't think 15MB of RAM is excessive... But once again, if I have 10 > times the number of entries, will I need 10 times the RAM?
No : --> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#how-much-ram > > My ultimate goal would be to keep the documents forever, or almost. But > without going over a disk space limit, and getting rid of leat recently > used documents... > > I could add a temporary store function to the script used to create the > documents, but since squid and its cache can do the same thing... > > Thank's for you answer, > > Martin Sévigny > M.