[squid-users] stoping after rotate
Marcus Kool
marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com
Wed Sep 9 00:30:53 UTC 2015
On 09/08/2015 09:23 PM, Jorgeley Junior wrote:
> ok, read that already, i set cache_mem to 5GB, so is not ok?
No. Squid will use more than 6 GB with cache_mem set to 5 GB.
I suggest that you use 2500 MB and after Squid runs for 1 hour, see what the total process size is.
Marcus
> 2015-09-08 20:25 GMT-03:00 Marcus Kool <marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com <mailto:marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com>>:
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> On 09/08/2015 10:39 AM, Jorgeley Junior wrote:
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> I have 8GB physical memory and my swap is 32GB.
> I didn't increase the swap yet, should I?
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> You must start with reading the memory FAQ: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory
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> The general rule for all processes applies: make sure that a process is *not* larger than 80% of the physical memory.
> In your case, you must reduce cache_mem and make sure that Squid does not use more than 6 GB.
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> A swap of 32 GB is fine for a system with 8 GB physical memory.
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> I also suggest to consider a memory upgrade.
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> Marcus
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> 2015-09-08 9:23 GMT-03:00 Marcus Kool <marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com <mailto:marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com> <mailto:marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com <mailto:marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com>>>:
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> On 09/08/2015 08:11 AM, Jorgeley Junior wrote:
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> Thank you all, this is the output:
> vm.overcommit_memory = 0
> vm.swappiness = 60
> I have a Redhat 6.6
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> The value of vm.overcommit_memory is OK.
> The default value for vm.swappiness is way too high. It means that Linux swaps out parts of processes when they are idle for a while.
> For better overall system performance, you want those processes in memory as long as possible and not swapped out so I recommend to change it to 15.
> This implies that the OS has 15% of the physical memory available for file system buffers which is plenty.
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> You only mentioned that the swap is 32 GB. What is the size of the physical memory ?
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> Did you already increase the swap ?
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> Marcus
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> 2015-09-05 15:08 GMT-03:00 Marcus Kool <marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com <mailto:marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com> <mailto:marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com <mailto:marcus.kool at urlfilterdb.com>>
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> On Linux, an important sysctl parameter that determines how Linux behaves with respect to VM allocation is vm.overcommit_memory (should be 0).
> And vm.swappiness is important to tune servers (should be 10-15).
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> Which version of Linux do you have and what is the output of
> sysctl -a | grep -e vm.overcommit_memory -e vm.swappiness
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> Marcus
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> On 09/04/2015 07:04 PM, Jorgeley Junior wrote:
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> Thanks Amos, i will increase the swap
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> Em 04/09/2015 17:22, "Amos Jeffries" <squid3 at treenet.co.nz <mailto:squid3 at treenet.co.nz> <mailto:squid3 at treenet.co.nz <mailto:squid3 at treenet.co.nz>>
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> escreveu:
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> On 5/09/2015 7:16 a.m., Jorgeley Junior wrote:
> > Thanks Amos, my swap is 32GB, so that's causing the error as you said.
> > Which is the better choice: increase the swap size or reduce the
> > cache_mem???
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> Both probably. 128 GB swap I suspect you will need.
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> Increase the swap so the system lets Squid use more virtual memory.
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> Decrease the cache_mem so that Squid does not actually end up using the
> swap for its main worker processes. That is a real killer for performance.
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> Amos
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