Should I still leave 30% of my RAM for the OS's cache etc?
J
2008/11/13 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> john Moylan wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am about to take ownership of a new 2CPU, 4 core server with 32GB of
>> RAM - I intend to add the server to my squid reverse proxy farm. My
>> site is approximately 300GB including archives and I think 32GB of
>> memory alone will suffice as cache for small, hot objects without
>> necessitating any additional disk cache.
>>
>> Are there any potential bottlenecks if I set the disk cache to
>> something like 500MB and cache_mem to something like 22GB. I'm using
>> Centos 5's Squid 2.6.
>>
>> I have a full set of monitoring scripts as per
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/~wessels/squid-rrd/ (thanks again) and of
>> course I will be able to benchmark this myself once I have the box -
>> but any tips in advance would be appreciated.
>>
>
> Should run sweet. Just make sure its a 64-bit OS and Squid build or all that
> RAM goes to waste.
>
> Amos
> --
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> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE5 or 3.0.STABLE10
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>
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