Re: [squid-users] Memory Leak problem ? FreeBSD

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:53:01 +0200

David Brown wrote:
>
> Since implementing Squid 2.4-Stable6 I've noticed the available memory (as
> seen in "top") on the server machine has decreased progressively over the
> past 24-48 hours, such that the machine that once had 400mb spare now has
> only 70mb (and decreasing). Restarting Squid doesn't release this memory,
> only a reboot would do it.

My guess is that you have nothing to worry about. If everything works
the way it should then your OS should have put that memory for use as
filesystem buffers. Having spare unused memory is just a big waste.

This is certainly true for a Linux box. A Linux box running and actually
doing anything since it rebooted should have no more than about 4-8MB of
free memory as reported by top or free. The rest is put into valuable
use by the system.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Jun 27 2002 - 01:53:00 MDT

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