Re: swap mem

From: Florin Andrei <florin@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:25:17 +0300 (EEST)

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Milos Prudek wrote:

> Will making more memory available than physical RAM (using cache_mem)
> make sense (making squid respond faster)?

        Don't! :-)

        Never, ever, try to run anything in a server in swapping mode. The
performance drops dramatically. Try to avoid swap using as much as you
can, no matter what daemons you're running (Squid or other).

Florin Andrei , florin@maronet.ro , http://www.maronet.ro/~florin/
IT Manager - Maro Tradinvest, Bucuresti, Romania
tel: +40-1-3226737 ICQ: 20010694
Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 02:41:20 MDT

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