Re: Frequency of reboot?

On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Ernst Heiri wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:00:25 +0200 (MET DST) Eric doutreleau wrote:
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> > On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Oskar Pearson wrote:
> >
> > > Jeff Halper writes:
> > > > How often should the machine running squid be rebooted? Is there any
> > > > advantage/disadvantage to rebooting daily?
> > > Why would you want to do that!
> > >
> > > one of our cache machines:
> > > up 37 days, 57 min
> > >
> > > squid's stats say:
> > > Start Time: Sun, 25 May 1997 06:47:30 GMT
> > > Current Time: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 07:41:03 GMT
> > >
> > > It doesn't need to be restarted, and doing so just means the machine
> > > is down and people can't access it!
> > >
> > > Oskar
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Well one of a big problem with squid on solaris2.5 is that
> > it takes really a lot of memory.

What is 'a lot of memory' ? Are the problems memory leakage?

> > The only way i found to make it acceptable is to restart it
> > every night.

I'm running squid 1.1.10 on a 486Dx4/133 (Amd 5x86) with 64M Ram
(FreeBSD 2.2.2) and it runs like a charm. I let it run for days if
not weeks without rebooting.

> >
> > If someone has a solution...

Perhaps use another malloc package? (phkmalloc)

> >
> > P.S I can't change the machine squid it s running on
>
> Our squid 1.1.8 was running for 2 month without boots or restarts.
> But there is enough memory installed.
>
> Ernst
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de