RE: [squid-users] Oom-killer and Squid

Thanks Adrian, I'll give them a shot.
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian@creative.net.au]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:48 PM
To: Dave Rhodes
Cc: Henrik Nordstrom; squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Oom-killer and Squid

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007, Dave Rhodes wrote:
> Henrik,
> Sorry for the late reply, I've changed the cache_mem to 250MB and I am

> monitoring the growth. The server does have 6GB of RAM. The swap is
> small based on SuSE recommendations but I can add swap if necessary.
>
> Last night the squid proc grew to over 2GB so I lowered the cache_mem
> and restarted squid to free the 2GB. The current size is 765MB and
> I'm hoping it will level off at just over 1GB. If it continues to
> grow beyond 2GB then I'm guessing it's the malloc issue.
>
> "dlmalloc" isn't an option, as I understand it, as it is limited to
> 2GB. Know of any good 64bit compatible mallocs?

linux libc malloc isn't bad. The google malloc seems 64 bit happy.

Adrian
Received on Fri Mar 09 2007 - 18:09:25 MST