Re: Page Fault and configuration

Vincent Schultz:
>
> Hello Gentlemen,
>
> I have just installed Squid 2.2 stable 2 on a Spark Station 10 with 128
> Mo of RAM, one 75 Mhz cpu. There are 8 SCSI disks of 4Go (full at only
> 25%) on one controler.
>
> The cache Manager ("General Runtime Information" menu) shows me some
> results like :
>
> Number of HTTP requests received: 209614
> Page faults with physical i/o: 807958
>
> The ratio seems *very* high as i read !
>
> I read the FAQs and changed in my squid.conf the following things :
>
> cache_mem 80 MB

I think you should set this to 1/3 of your _free_ RAM - e.g. 36 MB could
be good value for this. Remember that this parameter is not for _all_ the RAM
the squid needs for usual work. See :

http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.17
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#lower-mem-usage

for details.

Regards,
Maciej

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