Re: [squid-users] Squid Memory Limits

On Monday 04 August 2003 22.02, Adam Aube wrote:
> > The server I am running squid on has 2 Gigs of Physical Memory
> > and a 2 Gig Swap partition. I have my Memory Usage Limit set to
> > 1Gig in my Squid .conf, but Squid often runs over 1 gig into my
> > swap space after about a month of uptime.
>
> See FAQ 8.1 - "Why does Squid use so much memory!?"
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.1

Or more to the point:

8.4 I set cache_mem to XX, but the process grows beyond that!
<url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.4>

Regards
Henrik

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