Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. wrote:
> Why would you prefer a 12 MB value for cache_mem? Btw, right
> now squid is using 143MB of memory.
Apart of the memory Squid uses you also need quite a bit of filesystem
buffers to have good performance. Also the larger your cache is the more
memory is required for filesystem buffers and Squid metadata storage.
If you have way more memory than your setup requires then there is no
problem in having a large cache_mem setting. It is however questionable
if you will se a noticeable performance gain from it or not. Squid
mostly uses the cache_mem as a scratch area and not really as a cache in
the normal sense.
-- Henrik Nordström Spare time Squid hackerReceived on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 15:51:12 MST
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