How to decide on frecency decay time for the new HTTP cache
Honza Bambas <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:42:29 +0100
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Hi all, and namely Justin and Jesse, As you may know, we are writing a whole new HTTP cache. It's using mainly frecency to decide what stuff to evict first when the disk cache becomes full. Frecency's main influencing coefficient is the decay time. When frecency is persisted, this number cannot be changed (at least to my knowledge). So, my question is: what are the criteria or ways to find the best value for the decay time coefficient? What we want is to find a value for which the cache miss ratio will be as low as possible, right now my only idea is to perform an A/B/C/... telemetry field test with some predetermined values. Any suggestions with what decay times we should experiment? Thanks. -hb-