Re: [squid-users] How can I get Squid to use more memory?

On 30.10.11 11:35, Ralph Lawrence wrote:
>How do I get Squid to use all my server memory as a cache and keep as
>many objects as possible in there?

better keep some memory for the underlying OS too. It's very bad when
squid uses so much memory that the system starts swapping.

>Each Squid reverse proxy has 2GB of ram and *only* runs
>Squid. Absolutely nothing else will be on the server. The actually
>site being cached is under 1GB in size on disk. So conceptly Squid
>should be able to cache the entire site in memory and we should only
>see TCP_MEM_HIT in logs right?

If you want to see only MEM_HITS, you can disable on-disk cache.
However that needs not be a good idea.

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