[squid-users] SQUID memory error after vm.swappines changed from 60 to 10

Bike dernikov1 dernikov1 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 12:46:07 UTC 2017


On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Marcus Kool
<marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 13/11/17 07:46, Bike dernikov1 wrote:
>
>>> are you saying that you have
>>>     cache_mem 14G
>>> If yes, you should read the memory FAQ and reduce this.
>>> 'cache_mem 14G' explains that Squid starts 'small' and grows over time.
>>
>>
>> For our case, what do you recomend.  10GB or even lower ?
>> Plan reading today, i hope that I will have peace, to concentrate.
>
>
> cache_mem does NOT define the total memory use of Squid.
> The FAQ explains it.
> On a 24G system you can start with 7 GB and only after 3 days of running
> without issues and verifying that the cache is 100% utilised (if not, Squid
> can grow) and there is sufficient free memory, you can increase it.
>

Read FAQ.
Now  trying to pass trough squid-internal-mgr/ reports/statistics.
For now we will stay at cache_mem 14GB, because we are modifying too
many settings at same time. Now at 99% used at 14GB if i read correctly.
Thanks for sugestions and help.


squid-internal-mgr/info output:
Cache information for squid:
Hits as % of all requests: 5min: 5.8%, 60min: 6.4%
Hits as % of bytes sent: 5min: 16.8%, 60min: 18.7%
Memory hits as % of hit requests: 5min: 64.1%, 60min: 64.9%
Disk hits as % of hit requests: 5min: 0.0%, 60min: 0.1%
Storage Swap size: 0 KB
Storage Swap capacity: 0.0% used,  0.0% free
Storage Mem size: 14195856 KB
Storage Mem capacity: 99.0% used,  1.0% free
Mean Object Size: 0.00 KB
Requests given to unlinkd: 0


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