RE: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

 
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've got a pretty busy squid proxy server (approx 50-100
> request /sec).
>
> Is there any guideline as to how often do we need to restart
> squid (e.g.
> shutdown and start squid)? The reason is that I found out
> that squid uses up
> my 2.5GB of RAM leaving only 6MB. Also it uses up half of my 500MB
> swapspace.
>
> When squid started using so much swapspace, does it means
> that there's many
> obsolete objects inside the RAM that has been forgotten and
> thus will not be
> removed/swapped out?
>
 
 
  Provided your SQUID box is adequately sized in memory terms (see the FAQ);
you >never< have to restart SQUID.

M.
Received on Sun Jun 20 2004 - 23:42:04 MDT