Re: Page fault too high.

From: Benarson Behajaina <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:21:48 +0200 (MET DST)

Thomas Tognolo wrote:
>
> Use gmalloc instead, it's better for me, and 64MB isn't to much.......
> mem_cache 8MB and use cache swap to 90-95 %

You're right, since after upgrading my Linux RAM to 128 MB,
the pagefaults problem doesn't appear any more.
Thanks for your help.

Benarson Behajaina.

> > Hello squid users,
> >
> >I'm running Squid 2.2s3,
> >Linux (SuSE), kernel 2.2.0, RAM 64 MB, 3x2 GB
> >When I start my Squid, it works fine, but after 3 hours
> >the Page faults with physical i/o is growing
> >to 10 times greater than the Number of HTTP requests.
> >
> >>From my cache manager info:
> >- Number of HTTP requests received: 4127
> >- Page faults with physical i/o : 44056
> >
> >I read the FAQ, and tried:
> >- to reduce the cache_mem parameter (from 21 MB to 16 MB)
> >- to reduce cache_swap (low 80, high 85)
> >- to set memory_pools off
> >- to reduce the maximum_object_size (1024 KB)
> >- my squid was compiled with --enable-dlmalloc
> >
> >but squid is still running too slow and with high page fault.
> >
> >from my squid.conf:
> >cache_dir /cache1 1900 16 256
> >cache_dir /cache2 1900 16 256
> >cache_dir /cache3 1900 16 256
> >
> >
> >
> >The cache manager show the following lines after 3 days:
> >- Number of HTTP requests received: 440127
> >- Page faults with physical i/o : 2030896
> >
> >Should I upgrade my RAM to higher than 64 MB , or should
> >I reduce the disk amount size in cache_dir ?
> >
> >Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >---
> >Benarson Behajaina.
Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 02:17:37 MDT

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