Re: [squid-users] Recommended Cache Settings for cache_mem

From: Michel Santos <michel@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 06:28:18 -0300 (BRT)

Snow Wolf disse na ultima mensagem:
>>From my experience,when squid has used full of cache_dir close to
> 20-30G,the OS would become very high-load due to the disk cache
> swap.So I think even you have 160G disk,you may not set the cache_dir
> bigger than 20G.
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ahem ... so I would need 8 x 160G disks in order getting 160G of cache_dir
or 4 x 250 also would do it? And the rest of each disk is used by this
"disk cache swap" thing?

Michel

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> 2007/7/4, Adam Parsons <adamp@officexpress.com.au>:
>> Hi, I would like advise on what the best settings would be for
>> cache_mem on a SquidNT (Note: SquidNT) box that we will be putting out
>> into a number of schools. The specs of the workstation are Pentium Duo
>> Core 1.86, 1 GB Ram, 160GB Hard drive. We have set aside 60GB of space
>> for the cache (though we could go to 80GB?, as we have the space). The
>> box is mostly going to be used for a local squid caching box, but it is
>> also going to be used as a McAfee repository (which will only take up
>> 150MB of space). What would be the best setting for cache_mem and would
>> setting the cache_dir to 80GB be beneficial, seeing as most of these
>> sites would use less than 10GB of internet a month?
>>
>> Thanks in advance - Adam
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