Re: [squid-users] aufs and memory usage

peter_lustig@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I am using Squid 2.4.6 Stable6 with Debian 3.0 Woody. Like Duane Wessels
> suggested in
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2002/wessels_duane.ppt
> I created an ext2 filesystem and chose aufs storage scheme in
> /etc/squid.conf
> (cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid 6600 16 256)
> Now Squid creates exact 20 processes which fast claim a lot of memory while
> the cache is nearly empty (about 80MB used). After 5 days of running each
> process took about 10MB of memory.
> Currently only 2 users are connected to the proxy because it is for testing
> purposes only.
> Squidguard is installed to filter the Porn-Content and smb_auth is used for
> authentification.
> Does someone know if this is normal ? And if not, can i simplay change from
> aufs to ufs ?
 
 These extra processes you are seeing are not real processes
but 'threads' created in the context of aufs being used.
So probably in a ps list this is not resulting in extra mem. usage
as it would be for a real separate process.
You could possibly also verify this by using the :

  % free

command.

M.
Received on Mon Apr 14 2003 - 05:46:01 MDT