Re: [squid-users] cache_mem

10MB of memory for the swap index, not for cache_mem.

The amount of cache_mem to allocate depends on the traffic load, and how
much memory you have to spare after the index and filesystem buffers
have taken their share.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Squid@Visolve.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is the standard,
> 
> For Every 1GB of cache_dir You have to allocate 10MB of memory.
> 
> Increasing this will improve the performance.
> 
> Regards,
> squid@visolve.com
> www.visolve.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Diggins <diggins@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
> To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:04 AM
> Subject: [squid-users] cache_mem
> 
> >
> > I'd like to know what the optimum value should be for the cache_mem tag in
> > my squid.conf file. I'm running 2.4Stable1 on a Solaris 8 machine with
> > 2x18GB cache disks and 1GB RAM. I could use some suggestions as to what I
> > should set this to. Does changing it make much difference with regards to
> > performance?
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > P.S. I did read the FAQ!
> >
> >
> >