Re: Squid Memory Usage

Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. wrote:
 
> I have 384 MB of RAM and I set, 'cache_mem' to 120 MB (is this right?),

Generally not a good idea. I would cut the last 0 from that ;-)

See the Squid FAQ for more info on cache_mem.

> since there's a note that says process can become twice or three times
> bigger than the value for cache_mem. But looking at cache manager's
> General Runtime Report:
...
> Memory accounted for:
> Total accounted: 54054 KB

Your Squid has probably not yet had enought traffic to built up a cache
in memory. The in-memory cache will grow up to cache_mem gradually as
more requests are processed.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker