On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:51:28 -0900, Chris Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the "free" man page: > > free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in > the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the kernel. > > This leads me to believe that your system is using 3,756 MB of RAM, and of > that, your kernel is using 1,129 MB. Redhat's manual gives much the same > picture: > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-memory > -rhlspec.html > > I would strongly advise against removing the swap partition. Then again, > I'm not a kernel hacker, and may have a poor understanding of what I'm > reading. *shrug* >
I have been using squid with swap turned off for quite some time. This box serves 250 req/sec (peak) and 101 req/sec (day average). Cache size is 170GB and median service time is about 45ms. Venkatesh K
