On Monday 01 September 2003 16.57, Shpend Bakalli wrote: > I am aware, but I dont think that squid will start swaping if the > OS is using 2 gigs of disk cache... the cache/buffer memory > supposedly should be freed to the applications asking for it right?
Some swapout is normal.. but you do not want to see a high rate of swapin.. See vmstat. > total used free shared buffers > cached Mem: 3098532 3087804 10728 0 171668 > 1798304 -/+ buffers/cache: 1117832 1980700 > Swap: 2040244 43728 1996516 > > I have no other memory-eating processes in this machine, except the > usual processes necessary for running squid... why its more > important for kernel to keep the cache/buffer in-memory and swap > squid out? can I alter this somehow? Hmm.. you said your Squid is 500MB, yet you have 1GB of processes. Not that it should matter with this amount of memory. Regards Henrik -- Donations welcome if you consider my Free Squid support helpful. https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=hno%40squid-cache.org If you need commercial Squid support or cost effective Squid or firewall appliances please refer to MARA Systems AB, Sweden http://www.marasystems.com/, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
