In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lars Nixdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to use Squid-Cache as http/ftp proxy. The problem is, that the currently >running squid is very slow (128MB RAM, 2GB HDD).
Squid should be very very fast on a machine like that. If it isn't something is wrong with the machine. Are you running a nameserver on it that grows very big or something ? Squid needs _a lot_ of RAM for it's own use. >The new Machine have 128 MB >RAM, 10 GB HDD. Okay, but do NOT use more than 2-4 GB of the disk for squid - if you want to use more, say 8 GB, you need more memory as well. 256-512 MB of RAM wuld be required. >Which version of memmory usage is contains in squid-2.2-sbl5? >There are sevaral routines for memory usage (malloc) but which one is the >rigth? From "Doug Lea" or ... . It doesn't use any special malloc, it simply uses the one from the standard C library, glibc 2 in this case. Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
