Re: [squid-users] large memory squid

john Moylan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am about to take ownership of a new 2CPU, 4 core server with 32GB of
> RAM - I intend to add the server to my squid reverse proxy farm. My
> site is approximately 300GB including archives and I think 32GB of
> memory alone will suffice as cache for small, hot objects without
> necessitating any additional disk cache.
>
> Are there any potential bottlenecks if I set the disk cache to
> something like 500MB and cache_mem to something like 22GB. I'm using
> Centos 5's Squid 2.6.
>
> I have a full set of monitoring scripts as per
> http://www.squid-cache.org/~wessels/squid-rrd/ (thanks again) and of
> course I will be able to benchmark this myself once I have the box -
> but any tips in advance would be appreciated.
>

Should run sweet. Just make sure its a 64-bit OS and Squid build or all
that RAM goes to waste.

Amos

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