> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Big Chiz > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:47 AM > To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: Re: [plug] proxy server hardware requirement for 150 > workstations > > This might help > > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#how-much-ram > > As a rule of thumb on Squid uses approximately 10 MB of RAM > per GB of the total of all cache_dirs (more on 64 bit servers > such as Alpha), plus your cache_mem setting and about an > additional 10-20MB. It is recommended to have at least twice > this amount of physical RAM available on your Squid server. > The recommended extra RAM besides what is used by Squid is > used by the operating system to improve disk I/O performance > and by other applications or services running on the server. > This will be true even of a server which runs Squid as the > only tcp service, since there is a minimum level of memory > needed for process management, logging, and other OS level routines. > > If you have a low memory server, and a large disk, then you > will not necessarily be able to use all the disk space, since > as the cache fills the memory available will be insufficient, > forcing Squid to swap out memory and affecting performance. A > very large cache_dir total and insufficient physical RAM + > Swap could cause Squid to stop functioning completely. The > solution for larger caches is to get more physical RAM; > allocating more to Squid via cache_mem will not help [snip]
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