It was just a curiosity. I am interested what other people use in their cache server as far as ram goes. :) That's all. -----Original Message----- From: Marcello Romani [mailto:mromani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:48 AM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Tóth Tibor Péter Subject: Re: How much ram Tóth Tibor Péter ha scritto: > Hi Guys! > > How much ram do you have in your squids? > We have 8GB, and it's all being used. > Proc usage is low, but ram seems to be never enough. > > Just interested. > > Tibby What OS are you using ? Under Linux, using top it's easy to see that all the memory that's not allocated to processes is used by the OS as disk cache and buffers. Their sisze is automatically managed by the kernel and given enough time will fill up the entire ram however big. After all, you don't want to pay for precious ram just to have it unused, right ? -- Marcello Romani
