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By: mark

mark — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:48:19 +0000

Vito, I do always cache in shared memory/tmpfs.
If you do so, don’t forget to tweak vm.swappiness:

sysctl vm.swappiness
sysctl -w vm.swappiness=5

The higher swappiness is, the more aggressive memory pages are swapped out. If you have a lot of RAM dedicated for cacheing and daemons demanding a predicable amount of RAM, better set a lower value.

The default is 60 for swappiness and 30% of total RAM for tmpfs.

And you’re right. One could’ve used caching abilities of Nginx http_proxy, but as soon as you use fastcgi this won’t work (not covered by this example, though). And, sometimes you just want that mirror files, e.g. for archival purposes.

By: Vito Botta

Vito Botta — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:43:21 +0000

Have you tried Nginx’s built in caching + using a tmpfs location as cache store?

By: mark

mark — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:40:51 +0000

I don’t have benchmarks for Varnish at hand and have only installed it once. It does ‘feel’ a bit slower on images, but don’t hesitate do tell us about any benchmarks or usage scenarios you come across.
(Varnishd has the advantage of being able to cache parts of pages, which Nginx cannot.)
http://deserialized.com/reverse-proxy-performance-varnish-vs-squid-part-1/

Squid would be my last choice, because it is rather slow compared to Nginx in this scenario (configuring it is just a pain), most cases slow to a third. Almost every benchmark out in the net points this out. But we’re talking about serving static files here, and Squid and Nginx have more options than that.
http://www.peterbe.com/plog/nginx-vs-squid – ~7100 Nginx, ~2300 Squid RPS

By: dennyhalim.com

dennyhalim.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:14 +0000

imho, varnish or even squid can manage and serve cache better??

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