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

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Lizzy Dizzy wrote:

> Is there any guideline as to how often do we need to restart squid (e.g.
> shutdown and start squid)?

Normally you do not need to restart Squid, but it is probably a good idea
to have Squid restarted once per month or so...

> 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.

Have you read the Squid FAQ on memory usage? Especially the last entry
with guidelines on required amount of RAM?

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Jul 25 2004 - 16:32:13 MDT