Re: Growing RAM usage by SQUID

From: Bill Petersen <bill@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:53:32 -0600

John,
What did you have to do to make this work?
Download GNU's malloc, compile and link with squid?

Regards,
Bill

John Sloan wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 carson@tla.org wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "John" == John Sloan <johns@uk.uu.net> writes:
> >
> > John> Yes, this is Solaris 2.5.1. What do you think the problem might be?
> >
> > If you link in -lmalloc, you're toast. The malloc() in libmalloc is broken
> > beyond repair.
> >
> > Use GNU malloc - you won't have mallinfo() and friends, but it'll be much
> > faster and won't leak memory (well, not as much, anyway... did we finally
> > catch the last of the leaks?)
>
> Just to report that memory useage with GNU malloc is significantly down.
> I don't buy the leak theory, but I suspect the pattern of allocation is
> causing significantly more fragmentation with the standard malloc.
>
> John

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