Nothing wrong with a Squid process of 180MB.
(If read a little further into the archives you will have come upon much 
discussion of the expected process size for Squid given certain 
variables, like size of the object store, cache_mem value, etc.)
khiz code wrote:
> hi all
> me again .. sorry 
> i ve been running squid fo rthe last 3 days
> http req/sec = 20
> 
> the squid process is abt 180 MB
> free -m shows me 
>         total  used  free  shared   buffers     cached
> Mem:    505     502   2      11      168         66
> -/+ buffers/cache: 267        237
> Swap:         4000          0       4000  
> 
> i got cache_dir of 12 GB distributed across 4 drives
> as 3 GB each
> cache_mem 100 MB
> compaq prolinea 512 MB ram
> 
> is this process size okay ...
> the shared buffer column keeps on increasing
> shud i expect swapping in the next few days ???
> any preventive measures
> coz going by the past posts on the list cache_mem of
> 100 mB is abt okay for 512 MB ram..
> i only got squid as the main process on th emachine
> pls do reply back
> rgds
> khizcode
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Received on Mon Sep 10 2001 - 10:49:51 MDT
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