Hi, Apologies if this has been hashed out before. I did some googling, and read the faq, but I could have been more thorough... ;)
I'm considering using Varnish to handle caching for a mapping application. After reading http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/ArchitectNotes, it seems like Varnish is maybe not a good choice for this. In short I need to cache something like 500,000,000 files that take up about 2TB of storage. Using more 1975 technologies, one of the challenges has been how to distribute these across the file system without putting too many files per directory. We have a solution we kind of like, and there are others out there. My impression is that we would start to put a big strain on Varnish and the OS using it in the standard way. But maybe I'm wrong. Or, is there a way to plugin a backend to manage this storage, without getting into the vm-thrash from which Squid suffers? Thanks for any advice -- Varnish gets such good press I'd really love if it were straightforward to use it in this case. -Eric -- Eric Bowman _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
