[squid-users] HTTP requests per minute: 507.4

Hi there!

Why is it that when I restart squid and it runs for about an hour or less, that my HTTP requests per minute: reachs a very high max value and then comes back down?

I was doing about 336 request per min.

I stop squid and restart it. It then when up to HTTP requests per minute: 507.4

How can I prevent this problem?

Could it be a memory problem?

Here is the top command output:

 10:34pm up 1 day, 1:22, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.19, 0.18
71 processes: 45 sleeping, 3 running, 23 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 5.5% user, 12.8% system, 0.0% nice, 81.5% idle
Mem: 196180K av, 193732K used, 2448K free, 0K shrd, 53808K buff
Swap: 88316K av, 0K used, 88316K free 19300K cached

  PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM CTIME COMMAND
16133 squid 14 0 90076 87M 2964 R 16.6 45.9 2:33 squid
16324 root 2 0 984 984 768 R 0.7 0.5 0:00 top
16136 squid 1 0 832 832 768 S 0.3 0.4 0:00 diskd
    3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 0:08 kupdate
  348 root 0 0 612 612 512 S 0.1 0.3 1:58 syslogd
16135 squid 0 0 832 832 768 S 0.1 0.4 0:00 diskd
    1 root 0 0 508 508 448 S 0.0 0.2 104:42 init
    2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd
    4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 kswapd
    5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
    6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
   63 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
  358 root 0 0 872 872 464 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 klogd
  384 nobody 0 0 728 728 608 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 identd
  391 nobody 0 0 728 728 608 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 identd
  392 nobody 0 0 728 728 608 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 identd
  393 nobody 0 0 728 728 608 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 identd

Any reason for this occurrence?

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
 
Edward Millington
(Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
Wildey
St. Michael
Barbados
1-246-430-7435
Fax : 1-246-431-0170
www.cariaccess.com
Received on Tue May 15 2001 - 20:34:00 MDT