The HEAP based policies uses a little more memory than the normal LRU
policy yes. Not sure if this memory is properly accounted for.
-- Henrik Nordstrom Squid hacker Chris Conn wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently switched to LFUDA as a replacement policy, and for the > interested, my byte-hit ratio rose by a factor of approximately 5%...my > hit ratio stayed steady at around 52%. > > As for the memory however, I was using 100MB of cache_mem on a 512MB > system, and I was surprised to see my box swapping at 26MB!!! This never > happened before using simple LRU and such a large cache_mem. > > Here are my mem stats after 7 days of uptime: > > Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): > Total space in arena: 437069 KB > Ordinary blocks: 432612 KB 97547 blks > Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks > Holding blocks: 18220 KB 8 blks > Free Small blocks: 0 KB > Free Ordinary blocks: 4457 KB > Total in use: 450832 KB 103% > Total free: 4457 KB 1% > Memory accounted for: > Total accounted: 305529 KB > > Why the large difference between the total in use vs the accounted? Any > ideas? Box is a Intel PIII 500Mhz Linux 2.2.15, 36GB cache partitions > running Version 2.3.STABLE2. Compiled using --enable-dlmalloc. > > Thanks in advance, > > ChrisReceived on Sun May 28 2000 - 17:47:54 MDT
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