Re: [squid-users] Re: slow browsing in centos 6.3 with squid 3 !!

From: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:34:16 -0300

On 02/25/2013 01:51 PM, Ahmad wrote:
> hi
> Marcus ,
> u must be correct ,
> i have 32 G total memory ,
> ive confiured in cache_mem =20000 M which is 20 G !!
> ive noticed that squid hanged and got down after some hours of operating !!
>
> i looked at all logs of squid and squidguard ,
> i didnt find any errors from squid !
>
> i looked at free memory by
> #free -m
> ==>it was only 600 M free of memory
> the # of process in squid was increasing gradually ,
> as i remember it reached 890 process when squid go down !!
>
> i rebooted the server and squid is working fine now !! i wish i found the
> solution of the problem
> now i decreased the cache_mem value to 10000 M instead of 20000 M
> also i will try to increase the memory to 64 G as soon as possible .
>
> any other suggestions ?
>
> with my best regards

cache_mem is 10 GB,
the in-memory index for 1500 GB disk cache is 21 GB,
Squid uses 64 KB buffers for each connection....
And the system has 32 GB of real memory.

I suggest to reduce the disk cache and make sure that Squid
does not use more than 28 GB.

Marcus
Received on Mon Feb 25 2013 - 17:34:25 MST

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