RE: Squid on Solaris and Intel

It does appear to be a memory leak but the memory does not free up even
after I stop squid. The only way to reclaim the memory is to restart the
system. I've tried both the default malloc and dlmalloc. The default
malloc is much faster but the memory disappears in a fraction of the time.

Jeff Madison
Systems Engineer
(801)924-0900 x 101

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc van Selm [mailto:marc.van.selm@nc3a.nato.int]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 12:09 AM
To: jeff@sisna.com
Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: Squid on Solaris and Intel

At 10:57 AM 10/27/98 -0700, Jeff Madison wrote:
[...]
>ith -enable-poll --enable-async-io --enable-dlmalloc -enable-ipf-transpar
e
>nt. I am using the default squid.conf with some very minor modifications
>such as changing the http port to 8080. I am putting the system under a
>some what heavy load but not any thing it should not be able to handle.
The
>problem occurs after the system has been running for about an hour. The
>system just runs out of memory and becomes extremely slow. The squid
>process its self is only using 20-30 MB or the memory. I would appreciate
>any suggestions for optimization or some type of solution to this problem.

Sounds like a mem leak to me. Check if your machine is swapping and if so
is it
fixed (temporarely) if squid is killed and restarted? If so you might want
to
try compiling with another malloc (try without dlmalloc first).

>I even open to changing the OS if that would help. If there is anyone that
>has experience with this problem or any ideas please respond ASAP.
>
>
>Jeff Madison
>Systems Engineer
>(801)924-0900 x 101
>
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