Can't figure out why Squid Swaps => Performance drops

Hi,

I can't figure out why my system swaps between 4 and 7 Mbytes. The FAQ says
that Squid's performance degrades significant if Squid goes swapping ! I
gave Squid 64 Mb cache_mem.

I have Squid 2.2 Stable 5 and 192 MB RAM, 400 MHz PII. My cache is currently
1.5 Gbyte. Below you see the output op "free" en "top". There are currently
no big processes active, only Squid.

             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 193232 190184 3048 8868 22656 16772
-/+ buffers/cache: 150756 42476
Swap: 136512 4504 132008

 11:45am up 6 days, 12:33, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
30 processes: 29 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 98.8% idle
Mem: 193232K av, 190120K used, 3112K free, 9336K shrd, 22624K buff
Swap: 136512K av, 4484K used, 132028K free 16456K cached

  PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
 1552 nobody 13 0 134M 132M 1932 S 0 0.5 70.3 19:57 squid

Can someone tell me if I should change some portions of buffers, cache_mem
or something else, please.

Greets Peter from Holland
Received on Mon Mar 06 2000 - 04:04:42 MST