Re: [squid-users] Slow Squid

From: Venkatesh K <kaevee@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:49:34 +0530

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:51:28 -0900, Chris Robertson <crobertson@gci.com> wrote:
> From the "free" man page:
>
> free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in
> the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the kernel.
>
> This leads me to believe that your system is using 3,756 MB of RAM, and of
> that, your kernel is using 1,129 MB. Redhat's manual gives much the same
> picture:
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-memory
> -rhlspec.html
>
> I would strongly advise against removing the swap partition. Then again,
> I'm not a kernel hacker, and may have a poor understanding of what I'm
> reading. *shrug*
>

I have been using squid with swap turned off for quite some time.

This box serves 250 req/sec (peak) and 101 req/sec (day average).
Cache size is 170GB and median service time is about 45ms.

Venkatesh K
Received on Thu Nov 18 2004 - 23:19:35 MST

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