On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
You should configure squid to use no more than about 60 - 70% of the
available physical RAM-- ie, set the cache_mem parameter to about 2.5
or 3GB.
Better yet, don't run Squid at all. It was designed for a computer
architecture that was already obsolete when Squid was first written.
This could be said of a lot of software, including many Unix
flavors. :-)
I can think of several things to criticise about Squid-- a config
file which falls between Apache's httpd.conf and a sendmail.cf in
terms of complexity is probably close to the top of my list, but for
the simple purpose of saving limited network bandwidth using on-disk
or in-memory caching, squid does just fine. I'd be happy to look at
Varnish when I get a chance, though.
It wouldn't be unreasonable to limit datasize to 3 GB on such a
machine, assuming that nothing you run will ever need to grow
larger...
...actually, maxdsiz is meaningless in FreeBSD 7, because the new
allocator uses mmap(2) instead of brk(2) / sbrk(2), so malloc() counts
towards the resident set size (ulimit -m), not the data segment size
(ulimit -d).
OK. Nicole, the OP, mentioned "amd64", not "-CURRENT", but I'll keep
this in mind for future reference.
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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