Re: [squid-users] squid and kswapd cpu problem

Anders Larsson wrote:
>
> Ok ill test that
>
> But the machine has 4Gb ram so why not using 500MB ? is it better to let
> squid increase if it's needed?

 Ok, look at the process size versus in-memory-part, (RSS) to see
 whether squid 'fits' or not.
 I advise to try the low cache_mem setting,for starters anyway.

 M.

>
> // Anders
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:58, Marc Elsen wrote:
> > Anders Larsson wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > We have a squid 2.4.STABLE7 l with kernel-2.4.22
> > > Then problem is that the machine get very high load and kswapd takes
> > > about 100% of the cpu this happens when there are lots of new requests
> > > to squid and when squid has taken around 800Mb ram.. the high load
> > > stays for aboun 30 min.
> > >
> > > any hints what we can do for for this?
> > >
> > > some related squid.conf infos
> > >
> > > cache_mem 500 MB
> > > cache_swap_low 90
> > > cache_swap_high 95
> > > maximum_object_size_in_memory 8 KB
> > > cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 4000 16 256
> > > negative_ttl 1 minutes
> > > positive_dns_ttl 1 hours
> > > negative_dns_ttl 1 minutes
> > >
> >
> > Reduce :
> >
> > cache_mem
> >
> > setting to 16 or 32Mb. Read full comments on this parameter in
> > squid.conf.default.
> >
> > M.
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