Re: [squid-users] Lots of swaps

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:07:25 -0900

Mike Leong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My squid instance is using a lot of swap. At the moment, it has a
> resident size of 3.2G and is using 980mb swap.
>
> My system has 4G of ram, squid is a 32bit app (We can upgrade to
> 64bit, but will have rebuild the cache). The cache as 32232237
> objects, 485.84 GB of data.
>
> I have the cache_mem set to 512MB and memory_pools off.
>
> Anyone know how decrease the swap? (Aside from adding more ram, or
> decreasing # of objs)
>
> mike
>

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#head-3da538dc64ac0575720762e73a506ccaca6d65f0
and
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#head-09818ad4cb8a1dfea1f51688c41bdf4b79a69991

Just the meta-data for 32232237 objects will require over 2 GB of RAM.
The recommended amount of RAM for 485GB of cache would be close to 5GB,
just for Squid.

The short answer would be "Nope."

Chris
Received on Wed Dec 27 2006 - 13:08:27 MST

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