Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-18 Thread Kinkie
> Recently on this list someone suggested using more than one squid process on > the same server to make better use of SMP hardware and the huge amount of > ram a 32 bit squid cannot directly address. I don't remember the thread > title right now, but maybe some additional foot for thought can be f

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-18 Thread Marcello Romani
Gavin McCullagh ha scritto: Hi, I don't mean to labour this, I'm just keen to understand better and obviously you guys are the experts on squid. While I'm definitely not an expert on squid, I like this thread, so I'll put another 2 (euro)cents on the table... On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Marcello

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-17 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I don't mean to labour this, I'm just keen to understand better and obviously you guys are the experts on squid. On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Marcello Romani wrote: >> Really? I would have thought the linux kernel's disk caching would be far >> less optimised for this than using a large squid cache

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Marcello Romani
Gavin McCullagh ha scritto: Hi, On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Marcello Romani wrote: From my little experience I would suggest that you give squid cache_mem a value of just some hundreds of MBs, and let the other GBs of ram to squid for indexes and the OS for disk caching. I guess after some time

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Marcello Romani wrote: > From my little experience I would suggest that you give squid cache_mem > a value of just some hundreds of MBs, and let the other GBs of ram to > squid for indexes and the OS for disk caching. I guess after some time > this will take you nea

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Marcello Romani
Gavin McCullagh ha scritto: Hi, we're running a reasonably busy squid proxy system here which peaks at about 130-150 requests per second. The OS is Ubuntu Hardy and at the minute, I'm using the packaged 2.6.18 squid version. I'm considering a hand-compile of 2.7, though it's quite nice to g

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Marcello Romani
Gavin McCullagh ha scritto: Hi, we're running a reasonably busy squid proxy system here which peaks at about 130-150 requests per second. The OS is Ubuntu Hardy and at the minute, I'm using the packaged 2.6.18 squid version. I'm considering a hand-compile of 2.7, though it's quite nice to g

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Amos Jeffries wrote: >> The server hardware isn't 64-bit so surely I can't run a 64-bit squid >> build, can I? > > Ah, no I believe thats a problem. I kind of assumed that since your > system could take >2GB of RAM it was 64-bit enabled hardware. Ah well. >> It may he

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Amos Jeffries
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, thanks for the reply. On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Amos Jeffries wrote: FYI: The latest Intrepid or Jaunty package should work just as well in Hardy. I'll look into this. I tried to build the intrepid debian package from source, but I came across a build dependency whic

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, althouh Amos explained much, I think there may be something to add... > Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >We've been monitoring the hit rates, cpu usage, etc. using munin. We > >average about 13% byte hit rate. Iowait is now a big issue -- perhaps not > >surprisingly. I had 4GB RAM in the serv

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, thanks for the reply. On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Amos Jeffries wrote: > FYI: The latest Intrepid or Jaunty package should work just as well in > Hardy. I'll look into this. I tried to build the intrepid debian package from source, but I came across a build dependency which was apparently not a

Re: [squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Amos Jeffries
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, we're running a reasonably busy squid proxy system here which peaks at about 130-150 requests per second. The OS is Ubuntu Hardy and at the minute, I'm using the packaged 2.6.18 squid version. I'm considering a hand-compile of 2.7, though it's quite nice to get se

[squid-users] squid on 32-bit system with PAE and 8GB RAM

2009-03-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, we're running a reasonably busy squid proxy system here which peaks at about 130-150 requests per second. The OS is Ubuntu Hardy and at the minute, I'm using the packaged 2.6.18 squid version. I'm considering a hand-compile of 2.7, though it's quite nice to get security patches from the di