Paul Cocker wrote:
Simple one I hope
Once you have squid up and running and know its memory use and overall
system memory use, should cache_mem be set as a percentage of the free
memory available, or should you be leaving a large amount of memory for
the use of the OS file cache and keeping squid' cache_mem at a smaller
value like 64MB?
1) Squid's handling of large objects (1MB+) in memory can be CPU intensive.
2) Squid does not pull objects from the disk cache into the memory cache.
Given those two facts, I use a smaller cache_mem value (64 or 128 MB)
and leave the rest for the OS.
Paul Cocker
Chris
