RE: [squid-users] Squid consumin swap

According to the website that you've sent here I have my squid configured
just the way they recommend and it still doing what I explained. The website
says I have to have 10MB for each GB of cache_dir plus my cache_mem setting
and an additional 10-20MB. I have 20GB of cache_dir, my cache_mem setting
was 32 and I added 20MB. That adds up to the 256MB I have now. Is it that I
have too much cache_dir? Is 20GB too much for 560+ users? I really have that
much cache too compensate the speed of the internet. Down here is too slow
and I prefer to cache as much as possible so that things speed up a little
bit.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:henrik@henriknordstrom.net]
Enviado el: viernes, 13 de julio de 2007 11:27
Para: Osmany
CC: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Asunto: Re: [squid-users] Squid consumin swap

fre 2007-07-13 klockan 10:54 -0400 skrev Osmany:
> It's been a long time since I first had this problem. I have modified,
> changed, erased, added configurations but I still don't see what's the
> problem. My squid consumes swap until it takes it all and the service
> goes down. I have 3.0Ghz processor and 512MB of RAM to offer internet
> service to more than 560 users authenticated. This is the cache
> configuration that I have right now.
>
>
>
> cache_mem 256 MB
>
> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid/cache 20480 16 256

The above is a bit tight for 512MB of ram..

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#head-09818ad4cb8a1dfea1f516
88c41bdf4b79a69991

Also your Squid version 2.5.STABLE6 is quite old. I'd seriously recommend an
upgrade to rule out that you are running into some old already fixed
problem. There has been very many memory leaks fixed since that release..

> I'm concerned about the swap maxsize. I don't know if I'm wrong but it
> says that I have 20GB when I only have 1GB of swap available in the
> system (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4).

The "swap" reported by Squid is the size of your cache_dir. It's not related
to the system swap space, or swapping.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jul 13 2007 - 09:53:22 MDT