Re: [SQU] Memory Issues, Need Advice

For hard drive/Ram guidelines, look at the Squid User's guide - page 14 -16
(those are the pages in the RTF doc).

Compiling in dl-malloc may help the memory usage also.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Mckellar" <benm@hotline.net.au>
To: "Squid-Users@Ircache.Net" <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:30 AM
Subject: [SQU] Memory Issues, Need Advice

> Hi,
>
> Please bare with me..
>
> I am a little worried about my squid memory issues when I see things like
> this.
>
> 1. Resource usage for squid:
> UP Time: 3822854.197 seconds
> CPU Time: 20781.400 seconds
> CPU Usage: 0.54%
> CPU Usage, 5 minute avg: 1.12%
> CPU Usage, 60 minute avg: 0.72%
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 299894571 <--- #### Is this a lot?
>
> 2. Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
> Total space in arena: 219853 KB
> Ordinary blocks: 216384 KB 157571 blks
> Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
> Holding blocks: 8228 KB 7 blks
> Free Small blocks: 0 KB
> Free Ordinary blocks: 3469 KB
> Total in use: 224612 KB 102%
> Total free: 3469 KB 2% <--- #### That does not equal 100%
>
>
> To give you a bit more background on the matter.
>
> I run a 60gig Squid Object Cache: Version 2.3.STABLE1 proxy server. I
have
> a Watchguard firewall and i force everyone connecting on port 80 throught
> the proxy server on 3128.
>
> Proxy server specs:
> CPU p3 450mhz
> RAM 128
> HD 3 x 30gig scsi 10k rpm (2 are mounted as /cache1 and /cache2)
>
>
> I receive about 50-100 hits a minute at this stage.
>
> I am just a little conecerned on the following 2 statistics as seen above.
>
> Do I need more Ram in this machine perhaps? to fix the 2% Total free
memory?
>
> How would i reduce the number of Page faults with physical i/o: 299894571
?
> (Is this number abnormal)?
>
>
> Please let me know your opinion(s) on this.
>
> Kind regards
>
> - Ben McKellar
>
>
>
>
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