[Opensim-users] What is the best way to manage asset cache on an OSgrid set of regions

[tringate at gmail.com]

I run three servers each have a few instances of opensim running on them and all of the regions are on OSgrid.

I have a common asset cache  for each servers, that all the instances use.  Maybe that is not a good idea, but I thought it might help keep it’s size
smaller than every instance having it’s own asset cache.

Up to now I have not expired any items in the cache.  Yes, they are massive in size.

I have been thinking about having one instance expire the cache and using a retention time of 48 hours.

Is that a good or bad idea?

I do have a fair amount of activity on each server as I run free home sites for many OSgrid users.

I am wondering a few things:

- Is running a single cache for several instances of opensim a good or bad idea?
- Is not expiring the cache a good or bad idea?
- Can one instance do the expiring of the cache for all instances since they all share the same cache?

Tom