Ok, I have been all over the memory FAQs and still can't figure out why my server is consuming all it's RAM. I have 2GIG of DDR RAM and the only service running on this server is Squid. My cache_mem is set to 64MB and cache_dir is 10000 16 256. During peak hours my RAM is consumed very fast. Is there something else I should be configuring besides cache_mem and cache_dir to minimize memory use?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Scott Phalen -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:11 PM To: Mouque, Eric Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [squid-users] FW: Squid memory utilization On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mouque, Eric wrote: > > 1/ What can I do to reduce Squid's memory usage ? First step is to figure out what part of Squid is using a lot of memory. The Memory Utilization page in cachemgr is a good start. > 2/ How do you collect Squid statistics ? Should I use cache manager > for doing so ? I prefer colleding runtime statistics with SNMP and plot them using MRTG or RRDTOOL. For usage statistics use one of the log analyzis packages for Squid. Which one to use depends a little on what kind of statistics you are interested in. > 3/ How to you tune Squid to avoid such memory utilization issue ? The > memory chapter in the Squid FAQ is pretty old. Is it still valid for > Squid Version 2.5 ? The FAQ chapter is still valid to most parts. > 4/ Squid.conf file contains the following parameters, do you have any > recommendation with regards to those parameters ? > cache_mem 16 MB cache_dir null /mnt/aplocaldisk/var/null There is not much to do about these parameters. Already set for very restrictive memory usage. Regards Henrik
