One of our cache servers cachemrg show very high number of page faults in compare to our other cache servers on which this number is as low as 0 and 8
Page faults with physical i/o: 513938
This cache server also consuming lot of swap
Swap: total 1913 used 290 free 1623
and high cpu upto 90% during peaks.
this is squid Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE9
compiled with
onfigure options: --prefix=/usr/local/squid --enable-poll --enable-snmp --enable-cache_digests --enable-underscores --enable-removal-policies=heap,lru --enable-storeio=aufs,coss,diskd,ufs --enable-delay-pools --enable-linuxnetfilter --with-pthreads --enable-icmp --enable-arp-acl --enable-htcp
OS: linux kernel 2.6.11.3
total physical ram : 2 GB
regards