On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:00:23PM +0000, Pundaleek P Belamge wrote: > Following are questions regarding SQUID?
I assume they are. Why do you ask? > I knew that squid keeps hot objects stored in RAM, by maintaining an > INDEX table. Now my question is: > > How it maintains the INDEX table? > > What INDEX values are stored in that table? Can't help here. I'm not familiar with how the data structures in RAM look like. But as they are volatile I usually do not care about them. > How it points to the, exact location where the, actual objects stored > in hard drive? It does not. In RAM are just small temporary objects. Most objects are written to disk (cache_dir). > When the machine switched off and then restarted or rebooted, the > contents of RAM will gets erased. The hot objects will just go away. Why bother? > That time no INDEX table nothing. Now how it points to the specific > objects(without INDEX table) that already stored in hard drive? That information is held in the "swap.state" file - not RAM. Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 3 lines --100%-- 3,41 All
