Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:28:05 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files Message-ID: <20071212132805.608dcfd5@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <475FD48C.7090508@dial.pipex.com> References: <475E0190.7030909@pacific.net.sg> <200712120920.46626.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <475FCD8A.5090903@dial.pipex.com> <200712121310.01617.wundram@beenic.net> <475FD48C.7090508@dial.pipex.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:31:08 +0000 Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > I have zero experience of squid beyond reading about it, but it has > always sounded like a major resource hog. It depends how you use it. I think you can probably get it down to about 15 MB, if you eliminate memory caching and use a modest disk cache. Squid needs to store per object metadata in memory, about 10-20MB per GB of disk cache, and that's what leads to very large memory use.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071212132805.608dcfd5>