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

    Yeah...

    Not to mention that when a squid -k rotate is issued (or a -k
reconfigure), the process may grow up to 2x the amount of its size for a few
seconds... If you don't have swap enough to buffer this grow, the proxy will
die miserabily out of memory with a FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate xxx
bytes.
    My own (hard-learned) experience.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kinkie" <kinkie-squid@kinkie.it>
To: "Raymond A. Meijer" <rmeijer@internet.gr>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

> 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 - 04:52:30 MDT