> On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Tural KAPTAN wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Ingrid Smud wrote:
> > > Connection information for squid:
> > > Number of TCP connections: 247207
> > ^^^^^^
> > > Page faults with physical i/o: 3850667
> > ^^^^^^^
> > Your cache is paging too much .. Try to decrease this ratio..
> > Try : http://squid.nlanr.net/FAQ/FAQ-10.html#ss10.18
>
> I know this FAQ item and was quite surprised because my squid
> shows similar "strange" big ratio. After some reading I found
> that Solaris' behaviour is quite different than other OSs and
> such situation is quite normal. I stress that my squid's machine
> is quite workless.
>
> Can anybody confirm such ratio is normal for Solaris?
>
The above ratio looks too high, even for solaris. On my system,
page faults is slightly (15-20%) less then TCP connections. (some TCP
connections result in IMS hits, so no physical I/O, assuming it
wasn't swapped out by the OS).
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