SUSE Manager/SUSEManagerProxyCaching
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How SUSE Manager Proxy Cache data
squid configuration
size of cached objects
Only objects up to the given size are stored on disk. If you want to store bigger files, please adapt the limit but take care that your storage has enough space.
maximum_object_size 200 MB
Metadata caching
These rules define caching of metadata.
refresh_pattern /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/.*/repodata/.*$ 0 1% 1440 ignore-no-cache reload-into-ims refresh-ims refresh_pattern /rhn/manager/download/.*/repodata/.*$ 0 1% 1440 ignore-no-cache reload-into-ims refresh-ims
The three numbers are <minimal cache time in minutes> <percent> <maximal cache time in minutes>
'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last modification age) an object without explicit expiry time will be considered fresh.
The calculation works like this:
"age": the age of the entry at check_time since last check "lastmod_delta": the difference between the last-modified date of the response and the time we cached it. It's how "old" the response was when we got it. "stale_age": lastmod_delta * 'percent';
if (age >= stale_age) => refresh it
When "max" is 1440 = 1 day, age cannot be more than a day
age: < 1 day lastmod_delta: 30 days
stale_age = 30 day * 1% (~ 7 hour)
In worst case you need to wait 7 hours if the last refresh just happened a minute before the channel changed.
"stale_age" increase when the content of a channel stay unchanged for longer times. With a 3 month patch cycle period we are near to the configured max time.
If this is not acceptable you can change the percent to "0%". This should disable caching at all.
RPM caching
Other content and especially RPMs are cached for a long time as they hardly never change.
refresh_pattern \.rpm$ 10080 100% 525960 override-expire override-lastmod ignore-reload reload-into-ims refresh_pattern . 0 100% 525960
Activate changes
After changing the squid configuration, tell squid to use the new values by issuing the command
systemctl reload squid