>Simple question: does everything get recorded by the Process 
>Filedescriptor's Allocation menu, including no_cache items? I have .tar 
>files set to no_cache and they still register in this menu item. One 
>responder said that maybe the FD mechanism is used for all objects but I'd 
>like confirmation from peopel who don't quote an entire post and then add 
>one line - besides that seems very counter intuitive. 

  Have a detailed reading of :


      http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/html/theory.html


  So FD's are already involved in network when squid does network I/O.

  And that is unrelated to eventual caching of an object or not.

 M.




>Second simple question: What are the meaning of the Nwrite and Nread columns 
>and the * next to some entries in the "Process Filedescriptor's Allocation 
>menu" - I looked in the source for cachemgr.cgi and comm_select and online 
>but found no good explanation. At first we thought it was bytes but the 
>ratio is actually about 1.6 actual bytes to every *Nwrite or *Nread unit.
 
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 General Relativity is a direct consequence of QM
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