Re: [squid-users] MEMORY usage

It would be a mistake to use every bit of RAM in your box. Even if you
could ensure that Squid used no more than 120MB, you would still be unhappy
about the performance, probably very unhappy.

With Squid consuming 120MB, that would leave you 8MB for the operating
system (you don't identify which OS you're using) and no RAM whatsoever for
disk caching. With no disk cache you will have to do physical I/O on each
cache access. That's S L O W.

Try setting cache_mem to 16MB - 20 MB or get more RAM.

On Saturday 01 December 2001 02:20 am, you wrote:
> ok....that means that if i lower cache_mem value for instance to 40MB -
> it will not grow
> again???? ( 40MB * 3 = 120MB )
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Snyder [mailto:swsnyder@home.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 9:13 AM
> To: Oleg Sorokin; squid
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] MEMORY usage
>
> On Saturday 01 December 2001 02:02 am, Oleg Sorokin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > can anybody help me with the following question???
> >
> > the problem is the next... i've set cache_mem 45M ( i've 128M on the pc
> > )... after restarting, squid uses as it shows in the squid.conf file ~
> > 45-48MB of memory...
> > but after several days squid already uses 90% of total memory ~
> > 110-115MB...and still
> > grows...
> > i've set memory_pool off ( to make squid to free memory - as i
> > understand...)
> > but nethertheless the persantage of memory using is still grows...:((
> >
> > pls, f1...how to control squid memory usage???
>
> The cache_mem parameter only controls one type of memory used by Squid.
> If you look at the example squid.conf that comes with Squid you will see
> a notation that the total Squid memory use can be up to 3 times the
> cache_mem value.
>
> So 135MB = 3 * 45MB. You've basically told Squid to use more memory than
> the 128MB of RAM you have installed. That's not good.
Received on Sat Dec 01 2001 - 08:04:25 MST