Caching

Caching

Overview

Allows you to add/remove cache stores, and configure: Global cache options.
What objects are cacheable or un-cacheable?
How cacheable objects are distributed between various stores?
Minimum and maximum size of the objects to be stored.
Revalidation period of cached objects, etc.

Global

showing global section of caching

Enabled

Enable or Disable caching.

TRUE: Enable caching section.

FALSE: Disable caching section. 

Violate RFC

This option causes the proxy server to violate some rules in the HTTP RFC to help improve cache performance specifically. When a website requests that the file not be cached with the "No-Cache" directive in the Cache-Control header, the proxy caches it anyway but always validates it with an If-Modified-Since conditional request.

TRUE: Enable violating the RFC standards.

FALSE: Disable violating the RFC standards.

Memory cache size

The maximum size in bytes of the memory cache. You can enter values in KB MB GB as 20K 20M or 20G respectively

Memory free extra

This is the memory cache size that is emptied, when the content cached in the memory is refreshed. The stalest content is removed, to free up space for new content. This prevents frequently used content from being deleted, when the store reaches its maximum allowed limit. You can enter values in KB, MB, GB as 20K, 20M, 20G respectively.

Minimum file size

The minimum file size in bytes of any cached file.

Maximum file size

The maximum file size in bytes of any cached file; if set to 0, no maximum file size is imposed.

Prefetch window

This option can be used to specify the time period after a file is prefetched in which it is exempted from any refresh or expiry rules.

ICP port

The UDP port to listen for ICP packets on.

ICP timeout

The timeout in milliseconds for response ICP packets.

Store balance method

This option controls how the storage directory file is selected. Fill size selects the storage directory with the least total bytes used. Fill percent selects the storage directory with the lowest percentage of space used.
FILLSIZE: Select the storage directory with the least total bytes used.
FILL PERCENT: Select the storage directory with the lowest percentage of space used.

Journal size

The maximum size in bytes of the journal.

Clean Interval

Interval time in seconds after which the content in the Memory Cache is dumped into the disk storage.

Store

List of storage locations for disk cache. You can add one or more locations under "Store" that would be used for physically storing the content for caching.

Enabled

Enable or Disable this entry

TRUE:  Enable this entry.

FALSE: Disable this entry.

Comment

For documentation, and future references, explain the relevance of this entry with your policies.
That is, by reading the policies, a future user can understand the purpose of that entry.

Profiles

Specify the Profiles applicable for this entry.
This entry will be applicable only if the connection has any one of the specified profiles.
Leave it Blank, to apply for all connections irrespective of any applied profile.
To avoid application to a connection that has a profile, use negated profile (!profile).

Path

Path of the directory where cached files are stored.

Maximum disk size

The amount of space that should be used to store cached files in this directory. You can enter values in KB, MB, GB as 20K, 20M, 20G respectively.

Disk free extra

This is the size of the cache store that is emptied, when the content in the store is refreshed. The stalest content is removed, to free up space for new content.
This prevents frequently used content from being deleted, when the store reaches its maximum allowed limit.
The value here is normally set to 30% of total size of the store. e.g. when Maximum Disk Size is 1G, then the value entered here would be 250M.

MD5 integrity check

Perform MD5 check on cache files when saving them and loading them from disk, this ensures that the corrupted cache files don't get used.
TRUE:  Enable MD5 integrity check.
FALSE: Disable MD5 integrity check.

Refresh

You can add / modify the rules under "Refresh" that would enforce your policies for renewing or refreshing the contents in the cache, to ensure that the users are served with content that is 'fresh enough'. This effectively allows you to intelligently and creatively manipulate the bandwidth usage.

Enabled

Enable or Disable this entry

TRUE: Enable this entry.

FALSE: Disable this entry.

Comment

For documentation, and future references, explain the relevance of this entry with your policies.
That is, by reading the policies, a future user can understand the purpose of that entry.

Profiles

Specify the Profiles applicable for this entry.
This entry will be applicable only if the connection has any one of the specified profiles.
Leave it Blank, to apply for all connections irrespective of any applied profile.
To avoid application to a connection that has a profile, use negated profile (!profile).

Cachable

Whether or not requests matching this entry are cached.

TRUE: Enable cachability.

FALSE: Disable cachability.

Minimum age

The minimum age of any file according to the Last-Modified header. Only files older than this age are cached.

Maximum age

The maximum age of any cached file before it must be revalidated. This overrides any given expiry time.

Revalidate age

The maximum age of any cached file which doesn't include any headers that indicate when it should expire before it must be revalidated; if set to 0, all cached files whose expiry time is uncertain are verified.
If no "Last-Modified" header is received to calculate the Last-Modified time factor, the cached file is always revalidated.

Last-Modified time factor

The maximum age of any cached file which doesn't include any headers that indicate when it should expire before it must be revalidated; if set to 0, all cached files whose expiry time is uncertain are verified.
If no "Last-Modified" header is received to calculate the Last-Modified time factor, the cached file is always revalidated.

Manage cached objects

SafeSquid has a multi-tier cache. This section gives Information related to the Cache volumes. It displays the list of Cache files, and give users the option to search through, and if required, selectively delete them using "Delete Matches" option.
The Cache Information section gives information for Memory Cache and Disk Cache Volumes. It shows the total number of objects, the total size of those objects in Bytes, and the percentage of total Cache used. It also displays the path of the various Disk Cache Volume(s).
The Regular Expression Match section has a text box, where you can enter a regular expression or any word, based on which, the corresponding matches are found from Memory Cache, as well as Disk Cache, and displayed.
You can also filter content on the basis of content modification date, accessed date and file size. On the basis of these filter criterion, all the urls that meet the specified criteria, are displayed below the regular expression match section.
The "Delete-matches" option allows you to delete the resulting matches.




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