On Monday 20 June 2005 09:51, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:21:54 +0300, Reinier > > Battenberg wrote > > [...] > > >> Taken these facts into consideration, which Linux > >> Distro is most suitable for us to use? > > FreeBSD. (i know this is not Linux, but it could serve > you best)
Squid being mostly memory and disk I/O intensive, I've
found FreeBSD to be rather difficult to work with unless
you spend a lot of time tweaking several (kernel)
options.
With SuSE, even with the default kernel, I hardly get to
use swap on my system regardless of how busy the server
is; and with Squid, the moment swap is touched, you
might as well consider the box nearly dead.
This is my memory utilization on my active cache box:
cache:/ # free
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 1027600 1015560 12040 0
296028 276800
-/+ buffers/cache: 442732 584868
Swap: 1052216 8 1052208
cache:/ #
Swap is only using up 8k; uptime is 7 days (was 79 days
but had to reboot to update kernel). When I was running
with kernel 2.2 several years back, swap utilization was
0.
But then again, I haven't tried the defaults in the
latest FreeBSD release, things could have gotten better.
Mark.
>
> rgds
> ernest
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