Re: U3, squid and swapping

[William Warren <hescominsoon emmanuelcomputerconsulting com>]

you can try using the vm.swappiness=0 and putting that in sysctl.

Jussi Silvennoinen wrote:
> After upgrading to U3 (x86), my little squid-box starting swapping without 
> obvious cause. Things we're fine with 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp.
>
> After 4 days and 2.7 million requests, it's now at:
>
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          2025       1461        564          0          7         79
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1374        651
> Swap:         4094        885       3208
>
> Squid is squid-2.5.STABLE12-4.i686 because of #167503, tried for sometime 
> to convince RH support that the LARGEFILE-problem does exist in EL-package 
> of squid to no avail, finally decided I have better things to do than to 
> draw the problem in crayons to them.
>
> Squid has no disk storage, only 'cache_mem 1300 MB'. Restarting squid 
> releases the swap and things are okay again for a while. But swap starts 
> to pick up slowly. Only squid, snmpd and postfix are running.
>
> Anybody else seeing anything similar?

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