Re: squid and memory!!!!

oh ok.. i thought it should be 1/3 of your actual ram in the machine.

I'll put it on 65 Meg.

Thanks.. I'll see how that works.

Andrew Specht | System
Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Richards <dj.richards@qut.edu.au>
To: Andrew Specht <andrew@iaccess.com.au>
Cc: squid-users@nlanr.net <squid-users@nlanr.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: squid and memory!!!!

>Andrew,
>
> I think you should look at the value you have set for cache_mem.
>The value of cache_mem should be approximately one third of the amount you
>want squid to use.
>
> For example, if you want squid to use 210 Mb you should set
>cache_mem to be around 70Mb or so.
>
> This is documented in the squid documentation at
>http://squid.nlanr.net/
>
>Seeya,
>
>Dave.
>
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>On Tue, 12 May 1998, Andrew Specht wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running squid on a freebsd machine with 256Meg of Ram and a 14 gig
>> cache.
>> Now squid is using a hell of a lot of Ram, plus 100Meg of my swap space.
It
>> seems that the cache doesn't want to go past the 8 Gig mark. Messages
log
>> gave me this msg:
>>
>> May 12 06:19:57 aphrodite squid[158]: WARNING: All 716800 swap files are
in
>> use.
>> May 12 06:19:57 aphrodite squid[158]: You should probably use a
>> lower value for
>> May 12 06:19:57 aphrodite squid[158]: 'store_avg_object_size' in
>> squid.conf
>>
>> Now i have done what it says, but it still won't go higher than that.
Would
>> it be better if I added another 256 Meg of Ram?? Or would i still have
the
>> same problem??
>>
>> Any ideas??
>>
>> Thanks in advance :)
>>
>>
>> Andrew Specht | System
>> Administrator
>> E-mail: andrew@iaccess.com.au | Internet Access
Australia
>> Internet: http://www.iaccess.com.au | Melbourne
>>
>>
>
>
Received on Mon May 11 1998 - 19:18:02 MDT