Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-07-25 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Lizzy Dizzy wrote: Is there any guideline as to how often do we need to restart squid (e.g. shutdown and start squid)? Normally you do not need to restart Squid, but it is probably a good idea to have Squid restarted once per month or so... The reason is that I found

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-28 Thread Kinkie
Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22.06 22:47, Hendrik Voigtlnder wrote: With growing I mean the squid process increasing over the time. If I read the FAQ correctly this could be caused e.g. if more and more objects go in the the cache_dirs thus increasing the space needed

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 25.06 22:19, Bruno Marcondes wrote: I had this weird behavior with squid on a RH9 server using kernel 2.4.22 , 2Gb of memory (the server was DL380 G3 from Compaq/HP), the swap usage was slowly growing forever and I even try disabling it with no harms , but I didn't want do it ...why ? It

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-28 Thread Bruno Marcondes
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:05:01 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25.06 22:19, Bruno Marcondes wrote: I had this weird behavior with squid on a RH9 server using kernel 2.4.22 , 2Gb of memory (the server was DL380 G3 from Compaq/HP), the swap usage was slowly growing

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-25 Thread Bruno Marcondes
Folks, I had this weird behavior with squid on a RH9 server using kernel 2.4.22 , 2Gb of memory (the server was DL380 G3 from Compaq/HP), the swap usage was slowly growing forever and I even try disabling it with no harms , but I didn't want do it ...why ? It shouldn't swap ! My squid is set

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-25 Thread Bruno Marcondes
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 03:31:26 +, Lizzy Dizzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When squid started using so much swapspace, does it means that there's many obsolete objects inside the RAM that has been forgotten and thus will not be removed/swapped out? What is your memory setting on squid.conf ?

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 22.06 22:47, Hendrik Voigtlnder wrote: With growing I mean the squid process increasing over the time. If I read the FAQ correctly this could be caused e.g. if more and more objects go in the the cache_dirs thus increasing the space needed for the index, i.e. if squid starts with a clean

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-23 Thread Hendrik Voigtlnder
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 22.06 22:47, Hendrik Voigtlnder wrote: With growing I mean the squid process increasing over the time. If I read the FAQ correctly this could be caused e.g. if more and more objects go in the the cache_dirs thus increasing the space needed for the index, i.e.

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-22 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.06 20:03, Hendrik Voigtlnder wrote: Yes, our proxy did use swap until I disabled it :-) 2GB RAM, squid process is stable at roughly 1GB process size, nevertheless the machine started swapping. I never figured out why, but the proxy is running fine without any swapspace. This is

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-22 Thread Hendrik Voigtlnder
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 21.06 20:03, Hendrik Voigtlnder wrote: Yes, our proxy did use swap until I disabled it :-) 2GB RAM, squid process is stable at roughly 1GB process size, nevertheless the machine started swapping. I never figured out why, but the proxy is running fine without any

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.06 06:20, Lizzy Dizzy wrote: I see, but according to Duane, http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/02/12/squid.html .Another thing that can help is to simply restart Squid periodically, say, once per week. Over time, something may happen (such as a network outage) that causes

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-21 Thread Hendrik Voigtländer
Thanks everyone. I see, but according to Duane, http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/02/12/squid.html .Another thing that can help is to simply restart Squid periodically, say, once per week. Over time, something may happen (such as a network outage) that causes Squid to temporarily

[squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-20 Thread Lizzy Dizzy
Hi Folks, I've got a pretty busy squid proxy server (approx 50-100 request /sec). Is there any guideline as to how often do we need to restart squid (e.g. shutdown and start squid)? The reason is that I found out that squid uses up my 2.5GB of RAM leaving only 6MB. Also it uses up half of my

Re: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-20 Thread Richard Fuser
Hi Lizzy, Check out this part of the FAQ it might help. http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html Regards, Richard On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 03:31:26 +, Lizzy Dizzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I've got a pretty busy squid proxy server (approx 50-100 request /sec). Is there

RE: [squid-users] How often should I restart Squid?

2004-06-20 Thread Elsen Marc
Hi Folks, I've got a pretty busy squid proxy server (approx 50-100 request /sec). Is there any guideline as to how often do we need to restart squid (e.g. shutdown and start squid)? The reason is that I found out that squid uses up my 2.5GB of RAM leaving only 6MB. Also it uses