Re: [squid-users] Memory usage

On 0, Henrik Nordstrom <hno@hem.passagen.se> wrote:
> 16 MB is not much for a Squid.. Mine is about 160MB when the cache is
> filled I think..
>
> Squid is designed to run on a server more or less dedicated to it's
> purpose.
>
> Subba Rao wrote:
>>
>> It is not that I don't use the Web that much. I do use it a lot and I do take
>> lot of breaks too. Why is Squid using up 25% of the memory especially when I
>> am not searching the web? There is no disk activity either, like updating the
>> cached objects in it's DB.
>>
>> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
>> 163 lsquid 0 0 16596 15M 812 S 0 0.0 25.0 1:10 squid
>>
>> Is there anyway to improve Squid's memory consumption (especially when I idle)?

How many users does your Squid Proxy serve? I have not considered capacity
planning on linux yet.

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