Growing RAM usage by SQUID

I am running Squid 1.1.18 I configure squid to

cache_mem 8

but find that over a week or so, squid uses over 100MB
of RAM. WHY? Is there any way to limit how much RAM
squid will use? Eventually it grows to around 200MB RAM
and crashes.

I have 64MB of RAM in the system with 1GB of swap.

Bill

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Bill Petersen email: brp@dsccc.com
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Technical Services, DSC Communications Corp, Plano, Texas
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Received on Thu Dec 04 1997 - 07:09:18 MST