Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:39:57 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Squid & heavy swapping Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990827202945.571B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <19990826011038.6BDFD153B5@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jaime wrote:
> Does anyone know what I can do to make this work better? I can't upgrade
> the RAM, unfortunately. However, the same amount of RAM was fine when I used
> the older software (2.2.5-RELEASE and 1.1 (not even the NOVM version)). Is
> there something that I'm over looking? A squid.conf setting that I should
> make, perhaps?
2 things I've encountered on the squid box I administer:-
- tuning squid's resource utilisation. I looked at the cache statistics,
and found that the average document size was noticeably different than
the default, amongst other things. I also looked at the DNS stats and
found that 99.99% of requests were being satisfied by 2 DNS server
processes, so reduced to 3 (for safety) from 5. I also found that even
with v2.1.x, the in-core footprint was such that I had to reduce the size
of the cache to meet the memory constraints (ie avoid paging).
- I restart the squid daemon once a week from a cron job - without this,
the memory leak gets out of hand. This with versions 1.1.2x and 2.1.x.
Your milage will vary,
am
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