Re: squid gets real big

Charles,

        The 'cache_mem' setting should be set to approx. 1/3 of what you
want squid to use. This is a documented 'feature'.

        For squid to use 300 MB of RAM then set cache_mem to approximately
100 MB.

Seeya,

Dave.

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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Charles wrote:

>
> We are running Squid 1.1.21 on an Ultra2 w/Solaris 2.6. The machine has
> 512Mb ram and 256Mb swap.
>
> Squid seems to keep growing and consuming all ram+swap. When I kill
> squid, all of the vm is freed. Squid is set to 256Mb ram cache and
> 10000mb disk cache.
>
> Is this behavior normal?
>
>
Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 15:47:59 MDT