question about proxy cache

Michał Jaszczyk jasiu85 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 15:02:29 MSD 2009


2009/6/9 Michał Jaszczyk <jasiu85 at gmail.com>:
> Hey,
>
> I'm having some problems with proxy_cache. Upstream responds with
> Cache-Control and Expires headers set to 30 days. My Nginx is
> configured like this:
>
>       proxy_cache_path /var/lib/storage levels=2:2
> keys_zone=storage:1024m max_size=102400m;
>
>       # unimportant stuff cut out
>
>       location /storage {
>            internal;
>
>            rewrite ^/storage(.*)$ $1 break;
>
>            proxy_method GET;
>            proxy_pass_request_headers off;
>            proxy_pass_request_body off;
>
>            proxy_pass http://storage;
>
>            proxy_intercept_errors on;
>
>            proxy_cache storage;
>            proxy_cache_valid 200 30d;
>            proxy_cache_valid any 1h;
>        }
>
> I chose random path on my upstream (something like
> /repository/data/3e960a013c9f00000000000000004a1bcf4b10f075cf0000) and
> I see that Nginx accesses this path very frequently - few times a day.
> I thought that the above config would make Nginx access this path only
> once a month. The cache is far from being full. What am I doing wrong?

I found something: How exactly does "inactive" argument to
proxy_cache_path work? If inactive is set to, say, 10 minutes and
nobody downloads the file for 10 minutes, is the file deleted from
disk or only from memory?

Regards,

-- 
Michał Jaszczyk





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