How to balance L1 and L2 caches?

I need some guidance in balancing my L1 and L2 caches. As you can
see below, I've already reduced L1 from it's default 16 because 4096
directories is *way* too much for a 512MB cache. Now I'd like to be a
little more exacting.

I currently have Squid (v2.2S5) configured as:

        cache_mem 16 MB
        cache_dir /var/spool/squid 512 8 256

Rather than further reducing L1, should I pare down L2 from its
default 256 instead? How does one determine a balance between L1 and
L2 values?

Thank you.

*** Steve Snyder ***
Received on Tue Dec 07 1999 - 13:20:16 MST