> Hi Folks, > > I've got a pretty busy squid proxy server (approx 50-100 > request /sec). > > Is there any guideline as to how often do we need to restart > squid (e.g. > shutdown and start squid)? The reason is that I found out > that squid uses up > my 2.5GB of RAM leaving only 6MB. Also it uses up half of my 500MB > swapspace. > > When squid started using so much swapspace, does it means > that there's many > obsolete objects inside the RAM that has been forgotten and > thus will not be > removed/swapped out? > Provided your SQUID box is adequately sized in memory terms (see the FAQ); you >never< have to restart SQUID.
M.
