RE: [squid-users] Continuously growing S

Hello,

We have about 800000 connects (tcp connects) on an ordinary day.
And my Squid is using about 153 Mb RAM , and it stays like that.
I configured 60 Mb as cache_mem value.

Ron: Maybe you can try switching of the memory_pools to 'off'.
I never tried this but give it a try ,I should say :)

Info regarding memory pools:

# TAG: memory_pools on|off
# If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
# available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
# system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
# routines, disable this.

-- 
Schelstraete Bart
bart@schelstraete.org
Quoting Robert Adkins <raa@impelind.com>:
> 	My site is relatively small, so I have cache_mem set to the default of   
> 8. I never see the squid process become anything larger then 17M in top.   
> I have also never had any complaints from my users.
> 
> 	I haven't had anytime to run any kind of performance testing. I will be   
> doing so soon. Then, I will start playing around with those settings.
> 
> 	If it means anything to you, we have 8 users that access squid   
> throughout the day. We use squid mostly to block out questionable   
> material and to limit the amount of surfing time at the office. There had  
> 
> been some problems with people surfing the web more then working their   
> job.
> 
> 	From my reading, I am certain that the default settings I have will be   
> fine, even if the number of users increases up towards 20 to 40 users,   
> each with similar surfing habits.
> 
> 	Feel free to Let me know if I am wrong there.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert Adkins II
> IT Manager/Buyer
> Impel Industries, Inc.
> Ph. 586-254-5800
> Fx. 586-254-5804
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Schelstraete Bart [mailto:bart@schelstraete.org]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:54 AM
> To: mailinglistsquid-users@squid-cache.org; Ron Vachiyer; Robert Adkins
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Continuously growing SWAP
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> > Cache mem is set to 256Mb.  Here is the relavent CacheMgr output:
> >
> Just for your information cache_mem 256 Mb doesn't mean that Squid will   
> only use
> 256Mb of RAM , it will use a lot more (see Squid manual).
> So decrease that value if your squid is using to much memory.
> 
> 
>  Bart
> 
>