Re: cache_mem and memory usage

According to Stephane Bortzmeyer:
>
> On Wednesday 19 March 97, at 11 h 42, the keyboard of HJ Hwang
> <jung@jean.kotel.co.kr> wrote:
>
> > Cache information for squid:
> > Storage Swap size: 16996 MB
> > Storage Mem size: 86993 KB
> ...
> > Storage mem size means the used part of cache_mem ?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Why memory usage of mallinfo() is much greter than cache_mem ?
>
> Because Squid uses memory for many other things. cache_mem does NOT set
> an upper bound on memory consumption.
>
> See the detail of Squid's use of memory ("Accounted Memory Usage") at the
> end of cache manager's "info".
>
  Thank you for your explanation.
  I remember that
    It is recommended that one third of the whole avaliable memory is
    set to cache_mem.
 
  The used memeory of mallinfo() is different part from cache_mem ?
  Then what is cache_mem used for ?
  
-Hwang Hyojung

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