Re: OS swap

From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:57:04 -1000

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:58:29AM +0700, denisz wrote:
> It seemed that my squid box never causing system to use OS's swap area.
> Is it normal ?

It is not only normal, it is a Good Thing. Basically, it means your
system has overcapacity and can handle a lot more load of hits/sec and
quite a lot more cache_dir disk space without bogging down.

Swap space that never gets touched is the best kind.
  -- Clifton

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