Should I still leave 30% of my RAM for the OS's cache etc? J 2008/11/13 Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > john Moylan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am about to take ownership of a new 2CPU, 4 core server with 32GB of >> RAM - I intend to add the server to my squid reverse proxy farm. My >> site is approximately 300GB including archives and I think 32GB of >> memory alone will suffice as cache for small, hot objects without >> necessitating any additional disk cache. >> >> Are there any potential bottlenecks if I set the disk cache to >> something like 500MB and cache_mem to something like 22GB. I'm using >> Centos 5's Squid 2.6. >> >> I have a full set of monitoring scripts as per >> http://www.squid-cache.org/~wessels/squid-rrd/ (thanks again) and of >> course I will be able to benchmark this myself once I have the box - >> but any tips in advance would be appreciated. >> > > Should run sweet. Just make sure its a 64-bit OS and Squid build or all that > RAM goes to waste. > > Amos > -- > Please be using > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE5 or 3.0.STABLE10 > Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.2 >
