Re: /tmp/squid.alloc

Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Lothar Speil wrote:
>
> > I have Squid Version 2.3.STABLE3 on (SuSE 5.3) Linux running. I
> > compiled it with kernel 2.0.38. If I start squid a file
> > /tmp/squid.alloc is beeing created. It grows continuously. Did I
> > used an compiling option that causes it?
>
> --enable-mem-gen-trace
>
> If you do not know what it is for, you most likely do not need it.

A rule of thumb is that you SHOULD NOT use any configure parameters
unless you know that you need them. This applies to all of them, not
only the mem-gen-trace option.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker