Re: Multiple cache directories and cache_mem and cache_swap?

Steve.Green@its.csiro.au writes:

>Greetings!
>
>We have been running the Squid cache for a while now here at the CSIRO.
>We are currently runnging 1.1-beta6 ( tried beta 9 but bad things
>happened! ;-( )
>
>I have 2 1200 MB partitions that I want to use as a Squid cache on a
>machine with 80MB of RAM.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1. Do I set cache_swap to 1200 or 2400?

2400. Maybe a little less since Squid rounds up to 1k blocks
and you might be using 2k or higher blocksize.

>2. Do I set cache_mem to 24 or 48? Given that I want Squid to use a
>TOTAL of around 48MB.

I'd start even lower, say 16M.

Duane W.
Received on Wed Oct 23 1996 - 22:21:26 MDT