Re: [squid-users] large memory squid

> > john Moylan wrote:
> >> 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.

> 2008/11/13 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> > Should run sweet. Just make sure its a 64-bit OS and Squid build or all that
> > RAM goes to waste.

On 13.11.08 16:44, john Moylan wrote:
> Should I still leave 30% of my RAM for the OS's cache etc?

If you only have 500MB of disk cache, it's not needed.
If that's 500 GB, you should leave it...

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