Re: [squid-users] top reports twice memory as much as Total in mgr:mem

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:57:28 +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto <robe_at_allenta.com>
wrote:
> El día Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:45:22 +1300, Amos Jeffries
> <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> escribía:
>
>> memory pools would work that way. It is an allocator same as the system

>> ones but tuned to Squid usage instead of generic page sizes.
>>
>> cache_mem is a in-memory object cache. Its fill/empty cycles behave the

>> same as disk storage. So it will fill up and keep itself that way as
>> long as the machine is active and somebody "might" need the data
stored.
>
> Ok, I think I understand. I'll try a more generous setting for
> memory_pools_limit to see if the problem I stated in my mail yesterday
> ("Memory leaks in squid 2.7.STABLE7 ...") is helped somewhat.
>
> Thanks!

If its actually leaking its likely this:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/

The latest bug-fix snapshot of 2.7.STABLE9 is the best 2.7 to go with.

Amos
Received on Tue Oct 19 2010 - 21:24:33 MDT