On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mouque, Eric wrote: > > 1/ What can I do to reduce Squid's memory usage ?
First step is to figure out what part of Squid is using a lot of memory. The Memory Utilization page in cachemgr is a good start. > 2/ How do you collect Squid statistics ? Should I use cache manager > for doing so ? I prefer colleding runtime statistics with SNMP and plot them using MRTG or RRDTOOL. For usage statistics use one of the log analyzis packages for Squid. Which one to use depends a little on what kind of statistics you are interested in. > 3/ How to you tune Squid to avoid such memory utilization issue ? The > memory chapter in the Squid FAQ is pretty old. Is it still valid for > Squid Version 2.5 ? The FAQ chapter is still valid to most parts. > 4/ Squid.conf file contains the following parameters, do you have any > recommendation with regards to those parameters ? > cache_mem 16 MB cache_dir null /mnt/aplocaldisk/var/null There is not much to do about these parameters. Already set for very restrictive memory usage. Regards Henrik
