Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

Hi Lizzy,

Check out this part of the FAQ it might help.

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html

Regards,
Richard

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 03:31:26 +0000, Lizzy Dizzy <lizzy_99@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've got a pretty busy squid proxy server (approx 50-100 request /sec).
>
> Is there any guideline as to how often do we need to restart squid (e.g.
> shutdown and start squid)? The reason is that I found out that squid uses up
> my 2.5GB of RAM leaving only 6MB. Also it uses up half of my 500MB
> swapspace.
>
> When squid started using so much swapspace, does it means that there's many
> obsolete objects inside the RAM that has been forgotten and thus will not be
> removed/swapped out?
>
> Thanks
> LIZZ
>
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Received on Sun Jun 20 2004 - 22:27:35 MDT