Re: Memory use... am I doing something wrong here?

I've found that on FreeBSD and BSD/OS it's much better to
allow the OS to do all memory thingies -- it's much more
efficient than allowing Squid to do them.

Take a look at this tag in squid.conf:

memory_pools off
             ^^^

YMMV, of course.

On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Michael Pelletier wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:28:43 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Michael Pelletier <mikep@comshare.com>
> To: squid-users@nlanr.net
> Subject: Memory use... am I doing something wrong here?
> Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:28:55 -0700 (PDT)
> Resent-From: squid-users@nlanr.net
>
> In my squid.conf file, I have:
>
> cache_mem 64
> cache_mem_low 75
> cache_mem_high 90
>
> And yet in the "top" output on my BSD/OS 3.0 system, I see the following
> numbers:
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> 252 root 2 4 123M 123M sleep 11:28 0.20% 0.20% squid
>
> Anyone know why it would have a 123MB resident size despite the cache
> config settings? Thanks!
>
> -Mike Pelletier.
>
>
>

Best regards,
Andrew Stesin

nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
Received on Fri Jun 27 1997 - 03:05:50 MDT