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List:       squid-users
Subject:    Re: [squid-users] swapping/resource
From:       Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative ! net ! au>
Date:       2007-09-29 5:26:29
Message-ID: 20070929052629.GE21525 () skywalker ! creative ! net ! au
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2007, Frank Ruiz wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a system with 32GB of RAM, and I have my squid cache configured
> as an in memory cache only.

Which operating system?

> Currently Squid cache mem is set to:
> cache_mem 18000 MB
> 
> Cache dir is set to :
> cache_dir null /ebay/local/var/nocache
> 
> Two things I am hoping to do is:
> 
> Reduce swap.
> It appears that for every GIG of physical mem used, there is a
> corresponding amount of swap that is also allocated.
> 
> i.e. squid using 27G of RAM, and also 27G of swap is allocated. There
> is nothing else running on this box other than squid.
> 
> Reduce CPU utilization. Currently CPU is maxed out.
> 
> I am using Solaris 10 btw.

Aha! That answers my first question. I'm not sure how to fiddle
with Solaris paging stuff as I don't really look after any large
caches on Solaris anymore.

As for the second - try running Squid-2.6.STABLE16 compiled with
--enable-devpoll; see if that helps.



Adrian

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