Re: [squid-users] Memory leak?

>From: Richard Lyons <frob-squid-users@webcentral.com.au>
>Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:12:14 +1000
>
>On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Shpend Bakalli wrote:
>
>> (it continues to eat the mem and swaps), and it is not accounted in
>> squid process (which grows up to 500 MB). When squid is shut down
>
>Forgive me for asking the obvious question: are you basing this
>on the output of free? You're aware that the OS uses unallocated
>pages as disk cache?
>
>Rick.
>

I am aware, but I dont think that squid will start swaping if the OS is using 2 gigs of disk cache... the cache/buffer memory supposedly should be freed to the applications asking for it right?

Output from Free...
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3098532 3087732 10800 0 197972 1902248
-/+ buffers/cache: 987512 2111020
Swap: 2040244 19948 2020296

and after a while...

             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3098532 3087804 10728 0 171668 1798304
-/+ buffers/cache: 1117832 1980700
Swap: 2040244 43728 1996516

I have no other memory-eating processes in this machine, except the usual processes necessary for running squid... why its more important for kernel to keep the cache/buffer in-memory and swap squid out? can I alter this somehow?

regards,
Shpendi
Received on Mon Sep 01 2003 - 09:03:52 MDT