Re: FreeBSD & Memory Free

From: Peter Marelas <maral@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:11:14 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Mark Dabrowski wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:42:57 -0400
> From: Mark Dabrowski <mark@ica.net>
> To: Squid Mailing List <squid-users@ircache.net>
> Subject: FreeBSD & Memory Free
> Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 05:42:22 -0700 (PDT)
> Resent-From: squid-users@ircache.net
>
> This has been bugging me for a while:
>
> Squid 1.1.22 on FreeBSD 2.2.6 with 256MB RAM and 3 GIG cache_swap
>
> After machine is rebooted and squid starts it takes aproximately 2 hours to
> get the Free Memory go below 1 MB. It just keeps decreasing as squid takes
> requests.
>
> Then memory stays at aproximately 784K and squid keeps running. It can run
> for 3 days without any problems. Any ideas?
>

Sounds rather strange give your cache_swap is only 3gig and you have alot of
memory.

I suggest you:

* Reduce cache_mem to 8.
* Disable use of memory pool's.
* Compile with dlmalloc. (see configure --help).

Regards
Peter Marelas
Received on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 07:12:43 MDT

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