Re: Memory v's CPU

From: Oskar Pearson <oskar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 13:37:08 +0200 (GMT)

Robert Thomas wrote:
>
> At 12:10 PM 28/5/97 +0200, you wrote:
> >Walter Klomp writes:
> >> What is typically a big cache. Would a for instance a Pentium 60 with
> 512k and Raid-controller with 8Mb be sufficient for a lets say 6Gb Cache
> over a 256k LL and max 150 clients attached? What r the guidelines here ?
> >
> >Should be Ok... the ram will probably be a bit low, think about running
> >NOVM if you run with 8 megs, otherwise definitely go to 16.
>
> Uh. Thats -way- under what squid needs for a 6gig cache. For 6gig, you
> want, as a bare minimum, 64meg of ram. I run 128meg with an 11gig, and
> that runs nicely.
Ok - sometimes I am an idiot :)

After all the discussion about the internal table of objects I go
and answer this this way :)

Our 9 gig cache uses 77 megs of ram with NOVM...

        Oskar
Received on Wed May 28 1997 - 04:37:57 MDT

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