Re: [Fwd: Optimizing Squid performance]

Athanasios Kouroussis wrote:

> 1) Top or free report 3 of 512Mb of physical memory free. Only
> 40Mb of swap space used.

Quite normal regardless of the amount of memory you have as all the free
memory will be used ass buffer/cache memory to speed up disk accesses.

See "free" for a more detailed output.

Squid will be quite happy as long as it fits completely in memory, and
the machine is not swapping. So your machine should be equipedd with
little more memory than the size of the Squid process. How big margin is
required depends on your traffic rate.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker