On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Fernando Maior wrote: > Also, I guess it would be great not to change the > cache_mem option in order to avoid taking too much > time for writing the clean swap.state file.
cache_mem is not relevant to the time it takes to write a clean swap.state file. The amount of disk cache is (cache_dir directive). Squid does not stop while writing a clean swap.state file, but the writing of a clean swap.state does have a impact on performance. Writing a clean swap.state file is on most systems an operation in the order of at most a few seconds, but it obviously depends a bit on how much traffic Squid is processing while it is writing the clean swap.state file and the size of your cache. Note: If your Squid has been pushed into swap by other processes using a lot of memory or poor memory management policy selected by your OS then writing a clean swap.state can take considerable time as the OS then needs to pagein Squid from the swap.. Regards Henrik
