Re: [squid-users] Require help with memory usage of my squid.

hi there,

i am facing a similar problem with squid 2.4.stable1 on a solaris 2.6 box
with 256mb ram.
i have 4 solaris boxes with squid 2.4.s1 using a two parents / two children
hierarchy, where
both parents and both children have a sibling relationship. it looks like
this

(cache3) <-sibling-> (cache4)
parent X parent
(cache1) <-sibling-> (cache2)

(i hope you can read this :o)

i have set cache_mem to 32mb
my two cache dirs are ufs (diskd somehow causes disk i/o errors...) and
14gb each.
the full cache_dir config is

cache_dir ufs /cache1 14000 32 256
cache_dir ufs /cache2 14000 32 256

i know that you might find it a really stupid question, but i did not get
the real meaning
of the parameters behind the cache_size, except from telling squid how many
directories
and sub-directories it shall use. i guess, these parameters do affect the
cache size as well?

when i start squid everthings runs ok but at some point, the squid process
grows up to
486mb, using up even all of the 400m swap space. subsequently, the system
still runs,
but it takes me about 5mins to get a login shell...

this is the top output

last pid: 5725, load averages: 0.08, 0.11, 0.32
24 processes: 22 sleeping, 2 running, 1 on cpu
cpu states: 0.0% idle, 10.0% user, 14% kernel, 76% iowait, 0.0% swap

memory: 256m real, 4088k free, 400m swap in use

pid username thr pri nice size res state
time cpu command
5456 nobody 1 27 0 486m 0k run
362:14 9.7% squid
3048 rooot 1 33 0 15m 10m sleep
14:22 2.6% named

please note the 0k at 'res', which is 39m sometimes and then 0k again.

after some hours, however, squid seems to restart and the problem is
temporarily fixed.

i believe this is a weird problem posted by a weird person :o) but anyway,
pleeeeaaase HELP

Best regards

Torsten Lange
GE CompuNet Computer Distribution
All Area Networks Services
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Received on Wed May 16 2001 - 03:03:35 MDT