Re: [squid-users] Where did all my memory go?

How large processes can your kernel support?

Squid is a single process, and because of kernel memory management limits it
is quite likely not capable of using all your RAM.

640MB for cache_mem is most likely a overkill. Remember that cache_mem is on
top of the other memory usage of Squid, not a limit of how much memory Squid
uses.

Regards
Henrik Nordström

On Monday 19 November 2001 13.11, Palmer J.D.F. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just got one of my new squid machines up and running yet it has just
> ran out of memory and began to swap within 2hrs.
>
> I had a cache_mem of 640mb (it's 416Mb now) and 34Gb of cache_dir, which
> will increase to 68Gb as soon as my terminators arrive.
> The machine has 3Gb of RAM.
>
> I'm running,
> RedHat 7.2 Kernel2.4.7-10smp
> Squid 2.4.Stable2.
>
> MY configure options are --enable-snmp --enable-linux-netfilter
> --enable-storeio="diskd,ufs,aufs" --with-pthreads --with-aio-threads=32
>
> Does anyone have any idea where the memory is going? The squid process was
> registering 720Mb in top.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jezz Palmer.
>
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