Re: important squid optimization parameter

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: 13 Jun 2003 11:12:14 +0200

fre 2003-06-13 klockan 10.57 skrev atit jariwala:
> Hello Squid Developers,
> One Interesting and very Important optimization Parameters of squid
> 2.5 STABLE1
> I was facing a continuous increase in memory used by squid.
> this is due to memory_pools off
> Then after i have made memory_pools on and also specified
> memoy_pool_limit
> right now it is working fine and i have not noticed unneccessary
> increase in memory used by squid.

The default is on for very valid reasons. Without this most malloc
implementations quickly fragments the memory which can easily be seen in
the cachemgr general runtime information page reported as lots of free
memory.

Regards
Henrik

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Received on Fri Jun 13 2003 - 03:12:31 MDT

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