Zone_size vs max_size - what's the difference?

Server NGINX
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Hi,
I’m wondering what’s the difference between the zone_size and
max_size
parameter in a proxy_cache_path directive like below.

proxy_cache_path path [levels=number] keys_zone=zone_name:zone_size
[inactive=time] [max_size=size];
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Thanks for your help in advance.

xwk

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Hello!

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:21:12AM +0800, Weikai Xie wrote:

Hi,
I’m wondering what’s the difference between the zone_size and max_size
parameter in a proxy_cache_path directive like below.

proxy_cache_path path [levels=number] keys_zone=zone_name:zone_size
[inactive=time] [max_size=size];

“zone_size” is a size of keys_zone, i.e. shared memory zone used
to store cache keys (some minimal metadata about cached pages,
about 64 bytes on 32-bit platforms).

“max_size” is a maximum size of data on disk (i.e. cache itself).

Maxim D.