Re: [squid-users] cache_mem

Thanks for answering.

I am running web-polygraph benchmarks on the squid server.
What I understand is that at the beginning, until the data fill up the
cache_mem memory, there is a better performance. This lasts less than one
minute.

What I would like to know is what kind of data the cache_mem holds.
What algorithm determines the data to be stored and the data that will leave
the cache_mem area?

cheers,
Mihalis.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Mihalis Tsoukalos" <ekefe@freemail.gr>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] cache_mem

> mån 2003-02-24 klockan 09.02 skrev Mihalis Tsoukalos:
> > Hello to everyone.
> >
> > I am doing some benchmarking and I want to ask something:
> >
> > I am putting the following values in the cache_mem parameter of
squid.conf:
> > 1. 8 MB
> > 2. 32 MB
> > 3. 64 MB
> > 4. 128 MB
> >
> > but I don't see any real difference in the benchmarking results.
>
> What kind of benchmarks are you running?
>
> Changing this only have significant impacts on very specific workloads..
>
> For most normal proxy setups a value around 8-16MB is fine.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
> MARA Systems AB, Sweden
Received on Wed Feb 26 2003 - 08:43:09 MST