Hi Chris. Thanks for the very informative response. > Setting this to 500MB is IMO overkill and will lead to memory > starvation issues (remember, this is the maximum buffer size *per > object*) if you hit a decent number of simultaneous cache misses of > large objects. > > If the origin servers are fairly close to the proxy, then I'd say > you'd do better with a read_ahead_gap value in the single MB range, > depending on your total memory available. 500 MB was overkill. In fact, squid ran out of memory during my tests. Now read_ahead_gap is at 1 MB and squid is humming along. Thanks again, Charlie
