RE: Squid on Solaris and Intel

From: Nottingham, Mark (Australia) <mark_nottingham@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:13:58 +1100

FWIW, I use Squid 2.0 on several Solaris x86 2.6 boxes with absolutely
no problems.

Details:
* all patches applied
* Compaq proliant servers
* NO raid on caches (could this be your problem?)
* plenty of RAM
* compiled with gcc 2.8.1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Madison [mailto:jeff@sisna.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 4:58 AM
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Squid on Solaris and Intel
>
>
> I have been fighting for several months now to get squid to
> work on Solaris
> 2.6 on an Intel built server. The server is a multiprocessor
> box with a 40
> GB hardware level RAID array with 512 MB of RAM. I have all
> the confidence
> that the hardware is some of the best available from Intel.
> I am running
> squid-2.0.PATCH2 configured
> ith -enable-poll --enable-async-io --enable-dlmalloc
> -enable-ipf-transpare
> nt. I am using the default squid.conf with some very minor
> modifications
> such as changing the http port to 8080. I am putting the
> system under a
> some what heavy load but not any thing it should not be able
> to handle. The
> problem occurs after the system has been running for about an
> hour. The
> system just runs out of memory and becomes extremely slow. The squid
> process its self is only using 20-30 MB or the memory. I
> would appreciate
> any suggestions for optimization or some type of solution to
> this problem.
> I even open to changing the OS if that would help. If there
> is anyone that
> has experience with this problem or any ideas please respond ASAP.
>
>
> Jeff Madison
> Systems Engineer
> (801)924-0900 x 101
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 16:05:00 MST

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