Amy Anderson wrote: > > I will certinly try that, I am running a 1.4mhz with 2 120gb hard > drive and 2 512mb chips of ram, and when I have squid running our > branch offices are not able to telnet in because it is so slow.
And you have found that the telnet slowness is due to paging caused by Squid's memory usage? (I assume no errors in squid's cache.log?) The Squid FAQ section on memory usage is located here: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html What is the size of the cache_dir that you have allocated? The Squid FAQ recommends: --- from http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html ------- As a rule of thumb on Squid uses approximately 10 MB of RAM per GB of the total of all cache_dirs (more on 64 bit servers such as Alpha), plus your cache_mem setting and about an additional 10-20MB. It is recommended to have at least twice this amount of physical RAM available on your Squid server. --------- end of clip --------------------------- So reducing the size of your cache_dir will reduce the memory required. Squid's cachemgr.cgi is a very useful tool for tweaking these things. squid-users is a very active mailing list with a large number of the questions answered by the developers. You can find information about the mailing list here: http://www.squid-cache.org/mailing-lists.html Rick
