Hello!

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 05:30:55AM -0400, jakubp wrote:

> Hi Maxim
>
> Let me explain the use case.
> I am using cache module to serve very large library. Some files are very
> popular but a ot of them are not popular at all though. To deal with this
> long tail I use proxy_cache_min_uses to cache only after it was requested
> several times. So what I think happens is that disk is not a limiting factor
> (at least not enough) but keys zone grows very quickly.

What currently can be used for such a use case is "inactive="
parameter of the proxy_cache_path directive (see
http://nginx.org/r/proxy_cache_path). It ensures that items not
recently requested are removed from the cache, including ones
created with proxy_cache_min_uses. Have you tried tuning it?

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Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/

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