Re: [squid-users] Squid memory requirement

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:27:47 +0100

Please see the Squid FAQ. It has a whole chapter dedicated to memory
usage.

Regards
Henrik

On Sunday 08 December 2002 07.20, Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> Heya all,
>
> Recently I read an old - very old, as the matter of fact - book on
> installation and configuration of FreeBSD server (it was written by
> an Indonesian author so telling book's title won't do any good).
> What interest me is it said one should consider a good amount of
> dedicated RAM for Squid cache (ported for FreeBSD, of course) is
> around 1/3 of total physical RAM since the actual RAM usage would
> be higher than that 1/3 amount. I was fascinated although can not
> verify whether the author speak out his experience or not.
> Mentioned Squid version is 2.0 for FreeBSD.
>
> Neglecting the platform, did Squid developers mentioned this matter
> or I have to assume that author was speaking his experince? I have
> a box running Squid-2.4.STABLE7 under Linux with 512 MB physical
> RAM and found best performance was 1/5 of physical RAM (100 MB).
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