Re: [squid-users] memory leaks

> Edvard Chitro wrote:
>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>News from my squid box.
>>
>>I have changed fs from reiserfs to ext2 if you remember (due to the
>>suspect that it eats RAM).
>>And after cache dir is filled up ~95% I still get 300 MB of RAM gone
>>again....
>>
>>It is a real mystery for me where the hell all RAM has gone, but I
>> suspect
>>squid. Because when squid was turned off I had ~ 350 RAM in the buffers
>>and cache ... and now I have only:
>>
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>>Mem: 516312 510936 5376 0 17984 95408
>>-/+ buffers/cache: 397544 118768
>>Swap: 248968 0 248968
>>
>>Any ideas ?
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Edvard Chitro
>>
>>
>>
> Are you running any kind of software RAID? The Linux kernel has had a
> few problems with memory leaks and RAID
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/28/4 for one such example). The symptoms
> sound eerily familiar.

No I have two SCSI hard drives. no RAID. One for the system, another for
squid cache.

Now free says:

             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 516312 511796 4516 0 20944 84856
-/+ buffers/cache: 405996 110316
Swap: 248968 0 248968

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> Chris
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Received on Fri May 26 2006 - 11:13:51 MDT