On Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 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. Which operating system? > 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.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. > > I am using Solaris 10 btw. Aha! That answers my first question. I'm not sure how to fiddle with Solaris paging stuff as I don't really look after any large caches on Solaris anymore. As for the second - try running Squid-2.6.STABLE16 compiled with --enable-devpoll; see if that helps. Adrian
