From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 8 1:28: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ewok.creative.net.au (ewok.creative.net.au [203.30.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5085A15950 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 5444 invoked by uid 1008); 8 Apr 1999 08:09:15 -0000 Message-ID: <19990408080915.5442.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au> From: adrian@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: squid and FreeBSD (was: Re: Nice FreeBSD mention) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:13:29 +0800." <19990408071330.5268.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:09:15 +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Drop your cache_mem to something really small if possible. Let the OS do the >file buffering and you'll find it should swap less. > >If squid starts complaining the cache_mem is way way too small, its time for some extra memory to be installed. >FreeBSD is probably paging out unused pages in squid, and since most of squids >footprint will be the cache object database, on a busy squid it will result >in lots of pageins, causing degraded performance. Adrian, who shouldn't post to mailing lists 10 minutes after waking up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message