Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

From: Kinkie <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:06:26 +0200

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:25 +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, trainier@kalsec.com wrote:
>
> > kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m
> > Swap: 1027 18 1008
>
> You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be
> swapped out to disk...

I don't agree.
You don't want squid to be killed by the OS just because it happens ot
be malloc()ing at the wrong moment.

VM subsystem do quite a good job nowadays in order to avoid swapping out
hot pages.

        Kinkie
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 04:06:31 MDT

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