Re: [squid-users] memory eat

Benjamín Vayá wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I've installed Squid Stable3 and I've a problem with memory resources. My
> server has two CPU 2.6 GHz and 2 GB of RAM. The Swap size is 4 GB.

  2.5.STABLE3 is it ?

>
> When I starts squid, the RAM decrease progressively until 130MB free and, then,
> it begins to use Swap memory. After a time, all the Swap memory is spent. If I
> stop squid, the free memory dont increase. It seems as if there was somme
> process that does not release memory.
>
> Somebody can help me?

  Depend, on which os/platform/version ?

  Probably not the case : but Linux can kind of decide to keep free mem.
  for caching. This can often be 'proven' by starting another
  big application, you
  can see that this allocated mem is 'pushed' away for the newly started
  application.

  M.

>
> Best regards.

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