Re: [squid-users] squid 2.3.s4 mem usage

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:04:27 -0600 (MDT)

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 Torsten.Lange@GECITS-EU.COM wrote:

>
>
> i am running squid on a i386 box with suse's kernel 2.4.0-smp-4gb (suse
> 7.1).
> the box has 1gb of ram and gets bothered with approx. 70 req/second, which
> is quite a nice load.
>
> i have configured 'memory_pools on' with no 'memory_pools_limit' set.
> does that explain, why the system uses up so much ram?
>

The FAQ explains how Squid uses memory, and what you can do to reduce it.

> i expected at least the 'cached memory' value to be significantly higher...
>
> this is the /proc/meminfo after running squid 52 'cpu' minutes

/proc/meminfo really has nothing to do with Squid, other than that Squid
is one of the processes on your system. Its the wrong place to be
looking.
Received on Tue Jun 26 2001 - 11:04:28 MDT

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