Re: [squid-users] Twice as much memory used as accounted for

mån 2007-06-11 klockan 00:34 +0500 skrev rihad:

> Previously we used the heap LFUDA policy instead, at which time 1150 MB
> process size limit was enough to handle a 50 GB cache_dir + 256 MB
> cache_mem. But now 1500 MB process size is not enough to handle exactly
> 500 MB cache_mem with heap GDSF. Af first sight a 350MB increase in
> process size would be plenty to cover the 244MB increase of cache_mem.
> But if you take our 4,5 million cached objects with GDSF into account
> (as opposed to a little over 3 million with LFUDA) one can see why Squid
> now requires more memory than expected. Am I right in this reasoning?

Yes, more cached objects means higher memory usage. Quite linearly so if
you deduct the cache_mem.

Regards
Henrik