Re: Is Cache object real data kept both in memory & disk ?

From: denisz <denisz@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:36:34 +0700

Jan Van Ham wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Why not increase the cache_mem parameter ?
> Fetching objects from mem is much,much faster (as stated in the FAQ ;-)) then getting object from disk ??
> Why not defines a certain amount (like 64MB or so) for cache_mem ???
> Suppose you have 256MB RAM ... I think you could spare 64MB for mem_cache not ???
> Has anybody had bad expierence with this ???
>
> I know I had ... but that came because I only HAD like 90MB RAM and defining 64MB as cache_mem made me ran into resource-trouble...
>
> Regards,
> Jan

I even had a range of 512MB up to 1GB of RAM on my squid boxes and still
had no clue of optimized value of cache_mem...
currently i'm specifying around one third of physical mem available

-denisz-
Received on Wed Jan 05 2000 - 01:48:03 MST

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