From: Isaac Witmer <[email protected]>

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Marcus Kool
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
> > yes.
> > 1) the index is in memory and needs 10-20 MB index  in memory for each GB 
> > on 
>disk
> I was under the impression (from the oriely  squid manual) that recent
> versions do not use up extra RAM with bigger  caches.
> But maybe I read it wrong?
> Also, I'm a bit confused as there's  only one apparent "memory" option
> in the squid configuration.
> Could  you explain/point me to a tutorial?

The "needs 10-20 MB index  in memory for each GB on disk" is the explanation...
You need space (in RAM) to store those indexes...
Also, these 10-20 MB values are based on an average object size.
Indexes for bigger objects will take less memory (since less objects for a 
given 
GB of disk).
Indexes for smaller objects will take more memory (since more objects for a 
given GB of disk).

JD


      

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