Re: [squid-users] Memory usage (I know it's been up before.. tricky business)

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 09:16, Martin Svensson wrote:
> Hey all squid gurus!
>
> We have a cache to which 6000-7000 clients are
> connecting to (2.5STABLE5). On a typical day we are
> handling 70-100 requests/sec and 8-11Mbit in network
> usage.
>
> The problem I am experiencing is that the machine
> starts to swap (performance is still good though). We
> have a cache of 90GB, 3GB of memory and cache_mem is
> set to 128MB. We are caching quite large files to
> speed up frequent downloads (up to 100MB files).
>
> Acccording to the FAQ, this setup should use:
> 90GB cache = 900MB
> cache_mem = +128MB
> Add. mem = +20MB
> Total recommended: 1048MB x 2 = 2096MB.
>
> I still have 1GB left of memory. No other memory
> intense applications are running on this server and
> still it swaps out as much as 600-700MB before I
> manually restart the cache. It's running on RHEL 3.0.
>
> Any hints are appreciated. If more info is needed,
> just let me know. I just don't see the reason to why
> it swaps out so much.

/proc/meminfo, top, etc?

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