Re: [squid-users] How much ram

From: Marcello Romani <mromani_at_ottotecnica.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:29:10 +0200

Tóth Tibor Péter ha scritto:
> It was just a curiosity.
> I am interested what other people use in their cache server as far as ram goes. :)
> That's all.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcello Romani [mailto:mromani_at_ottotecnica.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:48 AM
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Cc: Tóth Tibor Péter
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] How much ram
>
> Tóth Tibor Péter ha scritto:
>> Hi Guys!
>>
>> How much ram do you have in your squids?
>> We have 8GB, and it's all being used.
>> Proc usage is low, but ram seems to be never enough.
>>
>> Just interested.
>>
>> Tibby
>
> What OS are you using ?
> Under Linux, using top it's easy to see that all the memory that's not
> allocated to processes is used by the OS as disk cache and buffers.
> Their sisze is automatically managed by the kernel and given enough time
> will fill up the entire ram however big.
> After all, you don't want to pay for precious ram just to have it
> unused, right ?
>

I was just responding to "ram seems to be never enough", and perhaps I
should've put a :-) after the question mark.

:)

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Marcello Romani
Received on Wed Jul 28 2010 - 11:29:15 MDT

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