Proxy cache max size

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Mon Jul 2 09:04:05 UTC 2012


Hello!

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:56:47AM +1000, SplitIce wrote:

> I came up with a crude solution, proxy_max_temp_file_size. By limiting the
> max size in cached paths to 50mb I should make it impossible for someone to
> store GBs of data to the disk before the cache manager runs.

No, the proxy_max_temp_file_size directive is ignored if cache is 
used.  This is for reason, as common use case is to disable disk 
buffering with "proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;", but have cache 
switched on for some requests.

Maxim Dounin

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> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Brian Akins <brian at akins.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Jun 30, 2012, at 3:20 AM, SplitIce wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm this presents a rather large issue for me.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to get the upstream response size in lua and set a
> > variable to influence proxy_no_cache? If it is ill learn lua.
> >
> > By the time Lua gets involved, the response has already been cached (or
> > not).
> >
> > You could do your own cache instead of proxy_cache, of course.  I have
> > some things that store the "cache" in redis, for example. Could be
> > memcache, custom cache, etc.
> >
> > --Brian
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