From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 8:21:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8479337B41F for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:21:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2FGLdWM013668; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:21:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2FGLbMF013665; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:21:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:21:37 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Francis Vidal Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing data segment size limit Message-ID: <20020315162137.GD2941@dan.emsphone.com> References: <006d01c1cc0f$17689470$0ea55bca@bitstop0bcloce> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006d01c1cc0f$17689470$0ea55bca@bitstop0bcloce> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 15), Francis Vidal said: > Hi, > > I'm running a very busy Squid proxy/cache system and I've bumped up the > data segment size to 768MB but the cache is growing and I'm afraid it > (Squid process) might stop again once the limit is reached. Is there a > way to remove the kernel-imposed data segment size limit? Are there > Squid admins here that might give me tips on fine-tuning? You can try setting 'memory_pools off' in your Squid config, which might make squids memory usage stay closer to its 'cache_mem' setting. What's cache_mem currently set to, and how fast does squid's memory usage grow? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message