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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide
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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

by Kulbir Saini
February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time for action – adding a cache directory

So far we have learned the meaning of different parameters used with the cache_dir directive. Let's see an example of the cache directory /squid_cache/ with 50GB of free space:

cache_dir aufs /squid_cache/ 51200 32 512

We have a cache directory /squid_cache/ with 50 GB of free space with the values of L1 and L2 as 32 and 512 respectively. So, if we assume the average size of a cached object to be 16 KB, there will be 51200x1024÷(32x512x16) = 200 cached objects in each of the directories at the second level, which is quite good.

What just happened?

We added /squid_cache/ with a 50 GB free disk space as a cache directory to cache web documents on the hard disk. Following the previous instructions, we can ...

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