On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mouque, Eric wrote:
> 
>   1/ What can I do to reduce Squid's memory usage ?

First step is to figure out what part of Squid is using a lot of memory. 
The Memory Utilization page in cachemgr is a good start.

>   2/ How do you collect Squid statistics ? Should I use cache manager
> for doing so ?

I prefer colleding runtime statistics with SNMP and plot them using MRTG 
or RRDTOOL.

For usage statistics use one of the log analyzis packages for Squid. Which 
one to use depends a little on what kind of statistics you are interested 
in.

>   3/ How to you tune Squid to avoid such memory utilization issue ? The
> memory chapter in the Squid FAQ is pretty old. Is it still valid for
> Squid Version 2.5 ?

The FAQ chapter is still valid to most parts.

>   4/  Squid.conf file contains the following parameters, do you have any
> recommendation with regards to those parameters ?
>       cache_mem 16 MB cache_dir null  /mnt/aplocaldisk/var/null

There is not much to do about these parameters. Already set for very 
restrictive memory usage.

Regards
Henrik

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