Re: too many page faults

change cache_mem to 8mb
increase your ram to 512 or higher
If you can change your ram then reduce the size of the cache to something
more manageable by the 128megs of ram...say..10gig of cache maybe smaller.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jay Wilson wrote:

> I am running RH6.0 and 2.3devel3. I have two machines setup as siblings.
> Both are K6-300 w/128m and 13G hard drive.I am noticing a VERY large amount
> of page faults. I read in the Squid FAQ's that the ratio of http requests to
> page faults should be between 0.0 and 0.1 for best performance but my ratios
> hover around 0.35 or more. I have cache_mem set to 24m and cache_swap_low
> set to 60. What else can I do to improve performance? I can see a noticeable
> latency under heavy load.
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> Jay Wilson
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Received on Thu Jan 06 2000 - 14:51:59 MST