Ok ill test that But the machine has 4Gb ram so why not using 500MB ? is it better to let squid increase if it's needed?
// Anders On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:58, Marc Elsen wrote: > Anders Larsson wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > We have a squid 2.4.STABLE7 l with kernel-2.4.22 > > Then problem is that the machine get very high load and kswapd takes > > about 100% of the cpu this happens when there are lots of new requests > > to squid and when squid has taken around 800Mb ram.. the high load > > stays for aboun 30 min. > > > > any hints what we can do for for this? > > > > some related squid.conf infos > > > > cache_mem 500 MB > > cache_swap_low 90 > > cache_swap_high 95 > > maximum_object_size_in_memory 8 KB > > cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 4000 16 256 > > negative_ttl 1 minutes > > positive_dns_ttl 1 hours > > negative_dns_ttl 1 minutes > > > > Reduce : > > cache_mem > > setting to 16 or 32Mb. Read full comments on this parameter in > squid.conf.default. > > M. --
