[squid-dev] [PATCH Bug 4534 and N-bit fixes for CacheDigest

[Alex Rousskov]

On 07/10/2016 04:08 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> we are going to have
> to decide if it is reasonable to have extremely large Cache Digest masks
> (several tens of GB or memory).

IMO it is very reasonable if the admin wants/needs large Cache Digests.
In some setups, occasionally transferring a few GBs between caches is
not prohibitively expensive.

Needless to say, we do not have to support large Cache Digests
immediately. If adding such support while fixing bug 4534 is difficult,
then it would be nice to treat too-big digests as a fatal configuration
error (rather than die runtime [from an assertion] when the digest gets
too big).


HTH,

Alex.