[squid-users] Squid Slowness Issues

[Amos Jeffries]

On 7/10/2016 10:48 p.m., Krishna Kulkarni wrote:
> Dear Team
> Thank you very much for accepting my request of mailing list membership..
> I am new to squid.. I have installed squid 3.5 on CentOS 6.7. As the
> configuration part, I have kept most of the things default. Please advice
> on how to allocate cache memory of 20 GB to squid. I got to know that, more
> cache memory would increase performance of squid..

Maybe, maybe not. "slow" is relative. But to what?

cache_mem is the directive you are asking for
<http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache_mem/>

But "slow" is usually not a memory problem. Giving Squid *too much*
cache_mem or configuring othe things that take too much RAM can make the
system swap and slow down.
<http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory>

Amos