RE: [squid-users] Slow Squid

Well, as I said, I'm not a kernel hacker and might be wrong... I guess I
was reading more into the page that I linked to than I should. Thanks for
clarifying.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uhlar@fantomas.sk]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:23 AM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Slow Squid

On 18.11 08:51, Chris Robertson wrote:
> >From the "free" man page:
>
> free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory
in
> the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the kernel.
>
> This leads me to believe that your system is using 3,756 MB of RAM, and of
> that, your kernel is using 1,129 MB. Redhat's manual gives much the same
> picture:
>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-memory
> -rhlspec.html

I've looked at that page, that page does not say anything you've said, and
doesn't oppose to anything I've said...

> I would strongly advise against removing the swap partition. Then again,
> I'm not a kernel hacker, and may have a poor understanding of what I'm
> reading. *shrug*

> > > > [root@proxy squid]# free -m
> > > > total used free shared buffers
cached
> > > > Mem: 3778 3756 22 0 472 2154
> > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 1129 2649

this says, 1129MB of RAM are used by programs, 2649 MB are usd as buffers
and disk cache (472MB for buffers and 2154MB of disk cache). That means,
only a bit more than one quarter of whole RAM is used for programs.
using swap will probably not give you more performance and turning it off
should not cause any performance degradation...

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