On 21.07.10 10:57, Marcus Kool wrote: > 1) the index is in memory and needs 10-20 MB index in memory for each GB on disk > 2) the housekeeping of the index costs more CPU cycles for a larger cache > 3) the housekeeping of the cached objects on disk costs time and grows > when the cache is larger. Can be minimised by having cache_swap_low 92 > and cache_swap_high 93. > > The system has 2 GB memory, assuming that the system is dedicated for Squid > you need 400 MB for the OS, leaving 1.6 GB for Squid. > A safe value for cache_mem would be 500 MB > > There are many tuning parameters. > The best one is to have more disks. in this case, more memory seems to be more important -- 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. The 3 biggets disasters: Hiroshima 45, Tschernobyl 86, Windows 95