It all depends on the size of your cache. we used to run 8gig of cache with 384 megs of ram squid usage at 300megs. Smaller caches can be run with a lot less. I run a gig of cache in 32 to 48 megs of ram; the more ram the better but you only loose performance if you either swap to much or do not hae enough ram for in transit objects. The latest squid faq has a good breakdown of memory usage; the store entries take up ram so the more objects your cache has; the more ram used by data structures. 100 meg of cache (you still get hits out of this) can run in 8 megs of ram. Basically try it and see; if you get too many page faults with physical i/o you are swapping too much and must reduce cache_mem in squid.conf; reduce the size of the cache or buy more ram. Regards, Kerry. On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:36:39AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Kerry: > > May I ask how much RAM is on your squid system? I ask because the > squid FAQ recommends at least 512 Mb based on a typical machine > from 1998, i.e. 300 mHz processor, etc. > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > > I do use squid; most definitely. It runs all 6 of the proxy > > servers I administer not counting my own. > > squid is an excellent package. > > > > regards, Kerry. > > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 08:40:30AM -0600, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
