Re: [squid-users] Linux eating all memory

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:31:24 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Bruno Marcondes wrote:

> It doesnt matter how I set cache_mem , kernel keeps caching
> (file cache?) till it uses all memory , leaving only 10Mb, thus the
> server keeps swapping all the time !

If is normal that all free memory is used for cache. This is how the
kernel should work. It is however not normal that this causes swapping.

If nothing else works, try disabling the swap.. With 2GB of memory you
should not need a swap partition.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 12:31:33 MST

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