Frank Ruiz wrote:
Greetings, I have a system with 32GB of RAM, and I have my squid cache configured as an in memory cache only. Currently Squid cache mem is set to: cache_mem 18000 MB Cache dir is set to : cache_dir null /ebay/local/var/nocache Two things I am hoping to do is: Reduce swap. It appears that for every GIG of physical mem used, there is a corresponding amount of swap that is also allocated.
I believe this is an OS feature which has to be disabled in the kernel configuration somewhere. I managed to fluke it here once when I didn't want to, took a hell of a time undoing the setting. Squid itself does not allocate any disk space unless a disk-based cache is configured.
i.e. squid using 27G of RAM, and also 27G of swap is allocated. There is nothing else running on this box other than squid. Reduce CPU utilization. Currently CPU is maxed out.
You are running Squid 2.6s16? 2.6 has had the most time spent optimising resources so far to date. Amos
