Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are using several squid machines (6 machines, each have all others as a siblings) for transparent caching/proxying using gre tunnel and wccp2 (with Cisco router). Can varnish work in such situation? Probably not; Varnish is a reverse proxy. DES --

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-23 Thread N. Harrington
--- JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 20:54:36 N. Harrington wrote: Hello I feel stupid, but I am confused about kern.maxdsiz (or datasize via limits command) on FreeBSD amd64. I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. It was designed for a computer architecture that was already obsolete

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Ganbold
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Claus Guttesen
You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? Varnish. http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ --

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alexandre Biancalana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... What the options for forward proxy/cache with user authentication and

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 8/22/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... What the options for

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread JoaoBR
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 20:54:36 N. Harrington wrote: Hello I feel stupid, but I am confused about kern.maxdsiz (or datasize via limits command) on FreeBSD amd64. I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this only applies to i386. By default, on servers

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread JoaoBR
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 08:32:05 Claus Guttesen wrote: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5 or 3GB. Better yet, don't run Squid at all. It was

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-22 Thread Ganbold
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better yet, don't run Squid at all. Ok, then what do you recommend instead of Squid? That depends on what you use it for... DES We are using several squid

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:54 PM, N. Harrington wrote: I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this only applies to i386. By default, on servers I have with 4G of physical memory, and 2X that of swap, I am showing a reported datasize limit of 33554432KB. far in