Re: Adding RAM

From: David Rees <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:00:41 -0800

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:44:51PM +1100, Craig wrote:
>
> We are currently running Squid 2.3 Stable1 on a Redhat 6.0 box. When we
> made the box we had 256Mb of RAM in it. We are about to add another 128Mb.
> Do we need to do anything special? Or simply turn the machine off add the
> ram, turn the machine on and away we go again? Do we need to reconfigure
> anything in linux or squid?

You don't _have_ to change anything, the ram will automatically be
detected by Linux and will be utilized as extra buffers/cache even if no
application is using it. But if it is a dedicated squid box, you might
want to increase the cache_mem parameter.

-Dave
Received on Sun Mar 05 2000 - 09:03:29 MST

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