[squid-users] Memory usage

It is not that I don't use the Web that much. I do use it a lot and I do take
lot of breaks too. Why is Squid using up 25% of the memory especially when I
am not searching the web? There is no disk activity either, like updating the
cached objects in it's DB.

  PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
  163 lsquid 0 0 16596 15M 812 S 0 0.0 25.0 1:10 squid

Is there anyway to improve Squid's memory consumption (especially when I idle)?

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