[squid-users] Squid SSL db on ramdisk

[Alex Rousskov]

On 02/10/2018 06:43 AM, Yuri wrote:

> security_file_certgen uses memory cache to buffer slow
> disk IO for certificates DB.

It does not.


> If we're put cert DB onto ramdisk (in fact,
> in RAM), so we're can easy reduce helper -M value.

security_file_certgen -M is the helper database size, not the
buffer/cache size.

The buffer/cache you might be thinking about is inside Squid, not inside
the helper. See dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size. dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size
is not related to -M.


HTH,

Alex.