Hi, On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Marcello Romani wrote: > From my little experience I would suggest that you give squid cache_mem > a value of just some hundreds of MBs, and let the other GBs of ram to > squid for indexes and the OS for disk caching. I guess after some time > this will take you near a ramdisk-only setup. Really? I would have thought the linux kernel's disk caching would be far less optimised for this than using a large squid cache_mem (whatever about a ramdisk). > Also, this would move the problem of accessing a very large ram address > space from squid (which being only 32-bit can lead to problems) to the > OS, which IMHO is better suited for this task. It's starting to look that way alright. > Also, I don't understand why spending so much on memory instead of > buying some more spindles to have a more balanced server in the end > (maybe space constraints ?) The cost of 8GB of ram was about €100, so it was relatively cheap. As you guessed, the machine itself is 1U and doesn't have space for any more hard drives. Gavin
