how to see malloc info?

hello,
I do not see the memory information via mallinfo
when I use cachemgr.cgi should I compile the squid
with a special directive? I have found this
--enable-xmalloc-statistics
in the configure help, but I am not sure if it
is the right thing?
thanks

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>
> > Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
> ...
> > Total in use: 206120 KB 97%
> > Total free: 9547 KB 4%
> > Memory accounted for:
> > Total accounted: 89936 KB
> >
> > It knows that it's using more than 213MB, but it says 89MB accounted for.
> > What's up with that? I was under the impression that Linux's malloc was
> > pretty good. Should I try dlmalloc?
>
> "Total in use" is how much memory Squid has allocated.
> "Total free" is "overhead" caused by your malloc package.
> "Total accounted" is how much of the allocated memory Squid knows what
> it is used for.
>
>
> When "Total free" grows large then is it time to look for another malloc
> package. This does not seem to be the case here so you do not need to
> look for another malloc package.
>
> When the difference between "Total accounted" and "Total in use" grows
> large (or when when Total accounted grows huge), then is it time to look
> for Squid bugs. So you and a couple of other who have reported similar
> symptoms are most likely experiencing a Squid memory leakage causing
> Squid allocate more and more memory over the time.
>
> No known fixes at this time as far as I know, but keep an eye on the
> Squid 2.2 bug list available on squid.nlanr.net.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Spare time Squid hacker
>
Received on Sun May 16 1999 - 16:10:04 MDT