Re: [Fwd: Optimizing Squid performance]

From: Roger Pena <roger@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:57:15 -0400 (CDT)

> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Athanasios Kouroussis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running Squid 2.4devel-ntlm3 under Linux 2.2.14 on a Compaq
> > Proliant 1600 (1 PIII 600Mhz, 512Mb RAM, 4x9GB SCSI-3 hard disks on a
> > single RAID 5 logical unit controlled by a SMART-2 RAID controller).
> > I am attending approx. 1000 users and I am getting (through cachemgr)
> > about 2000hits/min at peak time. I am using squidGuard a redirector for
> > filtering banned sites and a home made authenticator for NTLM users.
> > CPU utilization is low (normally above 90% idle state).
> >
> > 1) The whole 512Mb of RAM are in use most of the time (even at 3am when
> > only 10-20 users are active). Is this normal? The box used to have 256Mb
> > (also all in use) and I notice no difference in performance after
> > duplicating the size of the box's RAM.
>
linux usually use all the ram that the computer has, use the top command in
order to see how much ram squid use, you will see that it will far from
512 that its why you don't see any change in the performance.

Roger
Received on Tue Aug 08 2000 - 07:03:52 MDT

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