[squid-users] Understanding info in top.

Hi all again,

I know this is not necessarily squid related, but I'm experimenting with
various amounts of cache_mem to optimize my squid boxes.
I'm currently running with 256MB cache_mem.

Can anyone tell me what the 'cached' and 'buffer' variables are?
Or send me a link to a place which may know.

Unfortunately these are not mentioned in the man pages, and searching the
web for linux top is rather open ended. :-(

Here is a bit of my current top output.

12:53pm up 2:21, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.47, 0.52
62 processes: 60 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 12.2% user, 28.1% system, 0.0% nice, 59.1% idle
CPU1 states: 10.3% user, 25.4% system, 0.0% nice, 63.2% idle
Mem: 3090640K av, 2133880K used, 956760K free, 396K shrd, 101460K
buff
Swap: 2096472K av, 0K used, 2096472K free 1449132K cached
 
  PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
 1053 nobody 17 0 389M 389M 1728 R 73.8 12.8 94:37 squid
 1109 root 9 0 18092 9640 1732 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 X
 1118 root 9 0 6176 6168 5380 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 kdm_greet

I look forward to the day where I can help the list as much as the list has
helped me recently. Hope I'm not being too much of a pest.

Jezz Palmer.

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Jezz Palmer.
Internet Systems Officer.
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University of Wales, Swansea
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Tel 01792 513260
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Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 06:01:16 MST