memory used by squid

Hello

I have the following problem.

I use squid on a dedicated machine
PC linux with 128Mo of memory 8Gb of disk and Redhat5.0
my squid version is the 1.1.20
the cache_mem is set to 32Mo
the max object size is 8Mo

After several days of squid running i got the following result about
memory

total space in arena: 141098 KB
        Ordinary blocks: 76273 KB 85604 blks
        Small blocks: 0 KB -1073742528 blks
        Holding blocks: 396 KB 2 blks
        Free Small blocks: 131520 KB
        Free Ordinary blocks: 64825 KB
        Total in use: 76669 KB 54%
        Total free: 196345 KB 139%

The total in use is always around 50%
worse i got some

1998/02/05 09:00:16| WARNING: Exceeded 'cache_mem' size (34424K > 32768K)
1998/02/05 09:00:16| Perhaps you should increase cache_mem?

I guess i should increase the cache_mem parameter

How can i make the Total in use close to 100%

Or does i switch to the NOVM version ?

Thanks in advance

Eric Doutreleau
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91011 Evry France | email : Eric.Doutreleau@int-evry.fr
Received on Thu Feb 05 1998 - 00:32:43 MST