Web Proxy RAM cache problem

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Hi

I set up a transparent web cache on ROS 2.9.7 and all is working well except I cannot set the RAM-cache larger than the default 2048kb

The machine has 256mb RAM so I would like to have 150mb of RAM reserved for cache. If I set it for “unlimited” or anything else then it still reports 2048, anyone any suggestions. I have been trying this using winbox as I cannot figure out the terminal command, this is what I’ve been trying:

[admin@MikroTik] ip web-proxy set reserved-for-ram-cache=153600

but it tells me that there is no such argument.

Thanks

Harvey

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Ops, I just RTFM

[harvey@MikroTik] ip web-proxy set max-ram-cache-size=153600

but still reserved-for-ram-cache is only 2048kb

[harvey@MikroTik] ip web-proxy print
enabled: yes
src-address: 0.0.0.0
port: 3128
hostname: “proxy”
transparent-proxy: yes
parent-proxy: 0.0.0.0:0
cache-administrator: “info@sccird.com”
max-object-size: 128000KiB
cache-drive: primary-slave
max-cache-size: unlimited
max-ram-cache-size: 153600KiB
status: stopping
reserved-for-cache: 12898304KiB
reserved-for-ram-cache: 2048KiB

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Try to decrease regular cache size:

[harvey@MikroTik] ip web-proxy<SAFE> set max-cache-size=6000000

RAM is needed for disk cache as well. First of all it tries to use max amount
of disk cache. And only then, if more RAM is available, memory cache size is
increased.

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Thanks Normis, It has increased it


                 enabled: yes
             src-address: 0.0.0.0
                    port: 3128
                hostname: "proxy"
       transparent-proxy: yes
            parent-proxy: 0.0.0.0:0
     cache-administrator: "info@sccird.com"
         max-object-size: 128000KiB
             cache-drive: primary-slave
          max-cache-size: 6000000KiB
      max-ram-cache-size: 180224KiB
                  status: running
      reserved-for-cache: 5999616KiB
  reserved-for-ram-cache: 16384KiB

The way you explain it is different to the way I imagined it worked, so would I be better off only haveing 2mb of RAM cache as the disk cache will be using RAM anyway? I was trying to optomise the performance of the web cache.

Thanks

Harvey