Duane, I have been watching my processes and cache all day today. Squid is the only thing running on this server and seems to be running at 99% CUP utilization. I currently have 600MB free mem out of 2GB (I reset squid 2 hours ago). I changed my cache_mem to 128MB and set the cache_dir to 50000 16 256. What I am concerned about is running out of RAM. From the output of my "top" screen... there is no swap being used.
Is there a point where squid will stop consuming more RAM? Does it hurt the caching process with frequent reboots? Thanks in advance for your advice. Scott Phalen