Thanks for the Reply Amos. As per my original post, can anyone comment on the original 2 questions? *Question 1:* If I wanted to dedicate 3 GB of the Ram to the index, would that mean that I should set my cache_dir to 3072? cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 3072 16 256 *Question 2:* Seeing how this is significantly larger that the default 100 MB should I consider increasing the size of the "16 256" in the above sample code? -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/cache-dir-size-v-s-available-RAM-tp4661705p4661723.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.