Yeah...
Not to mention that when a squid -k rotate is issued (or a -k
reconfigure), the process may grow up to 2x the amount of its size for a few
seconds... If you don't have swap enough to buffer this grow, the proxy will
die miserabily out of memory with a FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate xxx
bytes.
My own (hard-learned) experience.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kinkie" <kinkie-squid@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Raymond A. Meijer" <rmeijer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: Which the best OS for Squid?
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:25 +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote:
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, trainier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m
> Swap: 1027 18 1008
You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be
swapped out to disk...
I don't agree.
You don't want squid to be killed by the OS just because it happens ot
be malloc()ing at the wrong moment.
VM subsystem do quite a good job nowadays in order to avoid swapping out
hot pages.
Kinkie
