On tis, 2008-07-01 at 19:46 +0200, Egi wrote: > In the archives of this list i found a topic about memory_pools, it said > that if memory_pools is set to on squid will save a lot of memory, and > also if its set to on it must have a memory_pool_limit. How things behave if memory pools is turned off is very dependent on the malloc implementation provided by your OS. By keeping memory pools enabled (the default) a lot of the load is taken off from the OS provided malloc implementation, making it behave much better. > Why is that ? Will "memory_pools off" and "memory_pool_limit" increase > the performance of Squid3 ? No. > What should be the size of "memory_pool_limit"? The defaults is probably pretty good for most setups. Regards Henrik
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