Re: [squid-users] Bigger cache size on hdd

Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Hamza Sani Abubakar Usman
> <hamza_sani_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can you please tell me that How much amount of ram will required if we use
>> 100GB partition for squid caching.
>
> I don't remember. A quick google search gave me this:
>
> http://www.linux-faqs.com/squid.php
>
> Where it states that you need around 10MB RAM per 1GB disk cache, but
> I don't know. Anyone can confirm this?

Yes, see http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory

>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:57:24 -0430
>>> From: ildefonso.camargo_at_gmail.com
>>> To: tibor.peter.toth_at_mtv.hu
>>> CC: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
>>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Bigger cache size on hdd
>>>
>>> 2010/8/23 Tóth Tibor Péter <tibor.peter.toth_at_mtv.hu>:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> My machine's got 120 GB storage in total.
>>>> I am using 10 GB, so I still have 110 GB free Hdd space.
>>>> Where can I configure squid to use more of the Hard drive for caching ?
>>> cache_dir on squid.conf
>>>
>>> But please, bear in mind that more disk cache will require more RAM,
>>> so take into account the amount of RAM your system has.
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Tibby
>>>>
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 24 2010 - 17:51:20 MDT