Re: [squid-users] Kernel Parameters for high performance cache

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:28:11 +0200

On 25.10.06 17:23, Pablo García wrote:
> Hi, Is there any kernel parameter I should modify in a kernel 2.6.9 or
> up, to allow squid to take full advantage of the machine it's running?

I don't know about any. You usually have to tune your squid config and
filesystems first, and I think it's enough in most cases :)

> Eg. If I want to use more than 1Gb of RAM for squid, should I modify
> the kernel.shmmax parameter ?

AFAIK you only need shmmax when using diskd, and aufs performs on linux much
better...

If you have more than one GB of memory on 32bit OS, you should have turned
on support for up to 4GB of RAM in linux.

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