Re: [squid-users] How much ram

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:26:57 +0800, Drunkard Zhang <gongfan193_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2010/7/28 Marcello Romani <mromani_at_ottotecnica.com>:
>> Tóth Tibor Péter ha scritto:
>>>
>>> It was just a curiosity.
>>> I am interested what other people use in their cache server as far as
>>> ram
>>> goes. :)
>>> That's all.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Marcello Romani [mailto:mromani_at_ottotecnica.com] Sent:
Wednesday,
>>> July 28, 2010 11:48 AM
>>> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
>>> Cc: Tóth Tibor Péter
>>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] How much ram
>>>
>>> Tóth Tibor Péter ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Guys!
>>>>
>>>> How much ram do you have in your squids?
>>>> We have 8GB, and it's all being used.
>>>> Proc usage is low, but ram seems to be never enough.
>>>>
>>>> Just interested.
>>>>
>>>> Tibby
>>>
>>> What OS are you using ?
>>> Under Linux, using top it's easy to see that all the memory that's not
>>> allocated to processes is used by the OS as disk cache and buffers.
>>> Their
>>> sisze is automatically managed by the kernel and given enough time
will
>>> fill
>>> up the entire ram however big.
>>> After all, you don't want to pay for precious ram just to have it
>>> unused,
>>> right ?
>>>
>>
>> I was just responding to "ram seems to be never enough", and perhaps I
>> should've put a :-) after the question mark.
>>
> Agree, my servers got 16GB, 24GB, 32GB to 64GB ram, seems hit ratio
> increased tiny...

Do you have dynamic object caching blocked? that can reduce hit ratio a
lot these days
 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent

Amos
Received on Thu Jul 29 2010 - 03:17:50 MDT