Hi Oscar,
Thanks for your reply !
My harwdare & Soft. configuratons are,
Operating System-- Linux
OS release: RedHat 5.0
Squid Version: Squid-2.0/PATCH
Clock Speed: 300 Mhz
SCSI Disk Size: 17 Gb (the partition where squid is installed has 5 Gb)
RAM: 128 Mb
56 DialUp user can simultaneously access squid
cache_mem 48
cache_dir /usr/local/squid/cache 100 16 256
What do you think about this configuration ? What do you suggest me ?
Thanks
Jose
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>Squid uses memory as it adds data to the on-disk store. If you have
>too big a store, your squid size will exceed your memory. When this
>happens, your machine will start to swap.
>Whenever Squid locates an object on disk, you will end up swapping
>large amounts of ram... you don't want this.
>
>to test this theory:
>
>Ensure that your cache_mem value is set at a small value: let's say
> 1mb.
>
>THEN
>Add more ram
>OR
>decrease the disk space you have allocated (with the cache_dir) value
>
>Oskar
