Re: Memory use by squid is growing

On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 03:44:13PM +0800, Wari Wahab wrote:

> Hmm, I reboot my machine one fine day (Memory upgrade) and
> discovered that squid is as slow as hell!! I don't know what going
> on, but I solved it using rm -Rf cache/ and doing a squid -z (or is
> it -y).. and it runs at full speed.. Hmmm

sounds like it doesn't have enough RAM, so when the store fills up
and squid needs to keep track of more objects, it over-commits and
you start swapping.

If this is the case, perfomance will again degrade as the cache fills
up.

-cw
Received on Mon Sep 14 1998 - 02:38:23 MDT