RE: [squid-users] Squid Memory usage on Fedora Core 3

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel H. Latshaw [mailto:dlatshaw@pitbullsolutions.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:31 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Memory usage on Fedora Core 3
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 00:06 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Daniel Latshaw wrote:
> >
> > > When i start squid, there is a process owned by root that is using 376mb
> > > ram. there is also a process owned by squid starting at 377mb ram and
> > > growing to 723mb ram and beyond.
> >
> > Do you have any very large ACLs defined?
>
> Yes, that is exactly what the problem is. I was using the
> sa-blacklist-current-domains list. the list itself is only
> ~2mb or so.
>
> > > Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
> > > Total in use: 969957 KB 100%
> > > Memory accounted for:
> > > Total accounted: 7415 KB
> >
> > This does not look good...
> >
> It is down to using about 8mb now.
> >
> > Which exact Squid version is this?
> >
> i was using the 2.5.stable6 that comes with fedora core 3. i
> have since
> removed that and am using 2.5.stable11 from fedora's site.
>
> when i reinstalled to the newer version i added on item at a time from
> my old squid.conf and restarted squid to see where my problem was. i
> don't believe it was in the 2.5.6 version, it was my acl. as i added
> that acl back in, my memory usage jumped back to the 1GB mark.
>
> Any idea why that particular acl would do that?
>

My guess would be that you were using url_regex (or dstdom_regex). The sa-blacklist-current-domains that I found looks to be a listing of domains, which would be more compatible with a dstdomain acl. You might want to adjust the list so every line starts with a period (.) for subdomain matching.

> Thanks!
>
> dan
>
> > Regards
> > Henrik
> >
>
>

Chris
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 13:46:26 MDT