Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.2x: Question about performances in tmpfs

Thanks Matus

So for you...
It make more sense to increase the "cache_mem" to the maximal possible
value instead playing with "cache_dir" ?

Le 02/03/2012 16:55, Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit :
> On 02.03.12 16:47, David Touzeau wrote:
>> I have a server with 8Go memory on 4 processors.
>> Currently my squid proxy 3.2 and my Debian using around 2Go memory in
>> the full production mode.
>>
>> I would like to try to add a kind of "temporary" cache in tmpfs using
>> around 3.5go of Squid Cache./
>
> That's what memory cache is for... while you loose it after restarting
> squid, by using tmpfs you'd have duplicate data in memory...
>
>> /Did it possible to do this on the squid.conf ? :/
>
> yes.
>
>> Means that the tmpfs is monted on /var/cache/squid-tmpfs
>> Each instance will have 875 Mb on a tmpfs and when the size is full
>> it will automatically start to run the standard cache based on disk.
>
> No, squid can't distinct bedtween multiple cache_dirs like this.
> This is just what memory cache is for...
>
> If you have 64bit kernel, you can try increasing cache_mem to e.g. 4GB
>
Received on Fri Mar 02 2012 - 16:01:52 MST