On 11/16/05, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 15.11 14:08, Houssam Melhem wrote: > > I have 10 SCSI Hard disks each 73GB and 8GB of RAM > > I suppose you have 64bit CPU and OS... > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 17962 squid 18 0 2836m 2.3g 3664 R 97.6 28.9 4035:06 squid > > ...looks so > > > I configured squid to use 28 GB on each > > > > cache_mem 512 MB > > cache_dir aufs /cache1/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache2/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache3/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache4/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache5/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache6/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache7/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache8/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache9/ 28000 32 256 > > cache_dir aufs /cache10/ 28000 32 256 > > I'd use '64 256' I tryed '64 256' for sometime, but i noticed that only 31 dirs where used the other dirs were empty, and I thought this will decrease memory usage > > When I increase ecach cache dir size squid process takes more memory > > and cpu becomes more busy, this leads to a full system crash (not > > immediatelly but after a while more than 5 days), I could not figure > > out the real source of this crash bu it is a kernel panic and the > > squid process ID is mentioned in the error messages on screen > > the "full system crash" will probably be problem of your OS or bad HW. OS > should not crash unless you have bad hardware. What errors are displayed > when crash happens? Something like: kernel panic not syncing , Error handling interrup and squid process ID is mentioned in the error report > > Can I take advantage of the remaining disk space on each Hard Disk? > > Do I need more RAM? > > > > Or squid just can not handle this big amount of Resoures (HD and RAM)? > > Have you read Squid FAQ, the part about memory usage? That should explain > much to you. http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html > > I think you can safely use 50GB on each cache_dir, files up to 64MB (with > LFUDA replacement policy) and squid should fit to 8GB of memory w/o any > problem. What do you mean by "files up to 64MB"?
