Re: [squid-users] Memory leak?

Bin Liu wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> # /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -v
> Squid Cache: Version 2.7.STABLE6
> configure options: '--prefix=/usr/local/squid' '--with-pthreads'
> '--with-aio' '--with-dl' '--with-large-files'
> '--enable-storeio=ufs,aufs,diskd,coss,null'
> '--enable-removal-policies=lru,heap' '--enable-htcp'
> '--enable-kill-parent-hack' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-freebsd-tproxy'
> '--disable-poll' '--disable-select' '--enable-kqueue'
> '--disable-epoll' '--disable-ident-lookups' '--enable-stacktraces'
> '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-err-languages=English'
>
>
> The squid process grows without bounds here. I've read the FAQ, and
> tried lowering cache_mem setting, decreasing cache_dir size. That
> server has 4GB physical memory, and with total cache_dir size setting
> to 60G, squid resident size still can grow beyond bound and start
> eating swap.

Note that cache_mem is not a bound on squid memry usage. Merely the RAM
cache_dir.

>
> The OS is FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE.

Thanks.

Do you have access to any memory-tracing software (valgrind or similar?)
tracking an actual memory usage while live can be done when built
against valgrind and certain cachemgr reports. I'll have to look them up.

Amos

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