Re: Cachesize 4Gig

Hi.

>
> Hi there!
>
> I have set up a squid 1.0.17 cache on a Linux 2.0.12 machine. The Cache of 4
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  We're running squid 1.0.17 on a Linux 2.x.x, equipped with 128MB RAM,
  HDD of about 6.8GB.

> GB size is stored on a separate partition (the whole disk is for cache only).
>
> Is this the correct way to set it up, or would I get better performance by
> splitting the 4GB up into 4 partitions of 1 GB each, or something else?
>
> BTW, the system is a Pentium 133 with 32 MB RAM. Is this reasonable with the
> mentioned cache size, or should I better add Memory?
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  It depends on number of requests/traffic your cache's receiving/serving.

  You can monitor the size of squid process with top and poll.pl script.
  They'll tell you how much memory squid's eating, additional memory
  you need.

  For your reference, our cache's receiving about 200,000 requests/day,
  serving about 3GB/day for 700 clients, and the size of squid process's
  up'n down in the range of 64-96MB. Of course after upgrading memory from
  64MB to 128MB, average access-time was reduced significantly.
  No swapping!!!

>
> Right now, it would be easy for me to change configuration, since the cache
> is only filled with about 500 Meg. But in 2 weeks, the system will be put to
> heavy load, and then I need all the cache and the best of performance I can get.
>
> Thanks for your replies!
>
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Sincerely,
Hyunchul Kim.

 - hckim@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr
Received on Thu Oct 17 1996 - 11:11:23 MDT