No harm in that. As long as you never go into swap, you can raise it as
high as you like.
However, 60-100 reqs/second isn't all that hard of a workload, and
shouldn't take such extreme hardware (a single CPU, dual IDE disk based
system with 384MB of RAM can do that).
Florin Andrei wrote:
> Is it reasonable to grow cache_mem aggresively?
> I mean, suppose i have 2.5 GB RAM, and only about 500MB used by other
> processes. So i modified cache_mem to 200 MB. Now the main squid process
> is around 1 GB.
>
> The cache gets 60...100 req/second during the peak hours.
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