> > john Moylan wrote: > >> 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. > 2008/11/13 Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Should run sweet. Just make sure its a 64-bit OS and Squid build or all that > > RAM goes to waste. On 13.11.08 16:44, john Moylan wrote: > Should I still leave 30% of my RAM for the OS's cache etc? If you only have 500MB of disk cache, it's not needed. If that's 500 GB, you should leave it... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Your mouse has moved. Windows NT will now restart for changes to take to take effect. [OK]