RE: Suitable system

Hello All,

Has anyone actually run a Squid cache at 24GB? I know there were object
lookup related performance problems with Netcache in the past. Does Squid
have problems with object lookups as the size of the gets larger?

Thanks,

Barry

On Tuesday, October 07, 1997 7:17 AM, Henrik Nordstrom
[SMTP:hno@hem.passagen.se] wrote:
> You need more memory if supporting that much cache..
>
> 4 * 6.2GB = 24.8GB
> 20KB on average / object -> 24.8GB/20KB = 1.3M objects
> 100 bytes metadata (always in memory) / object -> 124MB metadata (this
> is regardless you are using NOVM or not).
>
> So I'd say at least 256MB. The OS needs a few MB, and it is good to have
> some memory for filesystem cache....
>
> ---
> Henrik Nordstrom
>
> Umar Goldeli wrote:
>
> > This cache will run on a P166/Linux and will have 128M RAM to start with
> ....
>
> > Filesystem blocksize will be 8k. And as stated before, there will be 4 *
> > 6.2gb cache_dirs.
Received on Mon Oct 06 1997 - 21:24:09 MDT