Re: [squid-users] Squid Efficiency - What else to tweak?

> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:50 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > ...add more memory and disk space.

On 28.02 15:37, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Not an option unfortunately
>
> > I haven't seen his cache_mem
>
> cache_mem used to be at 32MB (because I wantted to save on Bandwidth,
> but I've since lowered it down to 4MB default due to me now wanting
> more speed increase instead

lower cache_mem means more disk cache to your OS. However bigger cache_mem
means more memory hits, which might speed up the machine.

> > and memory usage, but maybe using more than one GB for disk cache would
> > help a bit without machine starting to swap...
>
> The rest are really default values. I didn't change anything else

try using more disk space

> > But as long as the question was what to do "besides the hardware"...
> >
> > Also: What replacement policy do you (Ow Mun Heng) use? I use heap LFUDA for
> > disk objects and heap GSDF for memory cache. LFUDA gave me 2% better byte
> > radio and GSDF 2% better hit ratio IIRC.
>
> default, which would mean LRU.

heap methods should be faster and more effective.

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