Re: [squid-users] Cache Mem

From: pauloric <pauloric@dont-contact.us>
Date: 19 May 2003 15:04:34 -0300

Hi Henrik

Em Seg, 2003-05-19 às 14:32, Henrik Nordstrom escreveu:
> mån 2003-05-19 klockan 19.04 skrev pauloric:
>
> > a) total memory = 10 x cache dir ( n Gb) + cache_mem + 10~20MRAM (for
> > system)
> >
> > cache_dir ......n 16 256 n-> space for cache swap
> >
> > ok this is the formula to knowm how much memory I use but, what about
> > cache_mem??? I read the cache_mem is used to hot objects , etc etc but
> > how much should I use ? Is there a rule of thumb here?
>
> Not too much..
>
> As you see above the amount of cache_mem also impacts how much memory
> you need.

ok suppose that I have 100 normal users . I suspect that cache_mem 8M
should be enought for then or should I increase it? and how much/why (
sorry I newbie w/ squid)
>
> > b) ufs, aufs or diskd. which is the best, and when/why?
>
> ufs is good for request rates up to about 40 requests/s.
>
> When going above that you need to look into aufs or diskd. aufs is
> recommended for Linux and Solaris, diskd for FreeBSD and most other
> OS:es.

ok

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