On 06/06/2016 07:27 AM, FredB wrote:
Thanks for your answer
What is cache_mem ?
See also http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory
Actually 25 Gb
I tried different values, but I guess no matter, the problem is that the squid limit is only 50% of ram
After that the swap is totally full and kswap process gone mad ...
I tried with vm.swappiness = 0 but same problem, perhaps a little
better, I also tried memory_pool off without any change.
I recommend vm.swappiness = 5 to have 5% of the memory be used for
the file system cache and maintain good disk I/O.
More I increase vm.swappiness more I swap and more I have problems, but I will try your value
The values are too high (1024 times). I think that you incorrectly
set cache_mem.
ah, I misread the values. I interpreted the comma as a thousand separator.
Start with setting cache_mem to 16 GB
Maybe I misunderstand your point, but when I reduce cache_mem yes there is no problem but Squid uses only 20/30 Go Max
As you can read in the memory FAQ, the value of cache_mem is a part (often 35%) of total memory use.
When you start with a clean install, you will see a "low memory use" since the disk cache is not yet fully populated
and perhaps because the number of connections is low.
With cache_men 15 Gb squid eats 36 % of memory
Htop and htops reports 30 Go of free memory
free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63G 62G 425M 122M 1,7G 27G
-/+ buffers/cache: 33G 30G
Swap: 1,9G 102M 1,8G
All my RAM is consumed by cache/buffers and seems not be freed when it is needed by Squid
This is a healthy start.
When your disk cache is fully populated and when there is still room (e.g. 'cached' column of free shows many gigabytes), you may increase cache_mem.
Note that connections and Squid buffers occupy memory so always be a bit conservative to prevent swapping.
2 GB swap for a 64 GB memory system is a bit small. If you only have Squid and no other applications on this system it may be sufficient.
Marcus
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