Re: [squid-users] Memory leak?

On Monday 01 September 2003 16.57, Shpend Bakalli wrote:

> I am aware, but I dont think that squid will start swaping if the
> OS is using 2 gigs of disk cache... the cache/buffer memory
> supposedly should be freed to the applications asking for it right?

Some swapout is normal.. but you do not want to see a high rate of
swapin.. See vmstat.

> total used free shared buffers
> cached Mem: 3098532 3087804 10728 0 171668
> 1798304 -/+ buffers/cache: 1117832 1980700
> Swap: 2040244 43728 1996516
>
> I have no other memory-eating processes in this machine, except the
> usual processes necessary for running squid... why its more
> important for kernel to keep the cache/buffer in-memory and swap
> squid out? can I alter this somehow?

Hmm.. you said your Squid is 500MB, yet you have 1GB of processes. Not
that it should matter with this amount of memory.

Regards
Henrik

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