Re: [squid-users] Squid Memory always increasing

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:49:25 +1300

On 26/02/11 02:06, Saurabh Agarwal wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am using Squid-2.7.Stable7 and downloading 150 different cacheable files in a loop. i.e. each file is again being downloaded once its downloading finishes using a script. I see that Squid physical memory usage i.e. RSS as reported by the "top" command always increases. Even if I close the script which is downloading the files in a loop the Squid memory usage doesn't come down.
>
> I have tried both memory_pools on and off settings. But no luck there.
>
> Are there some known memory leaks in Squid-2.7-Stable7? Can someone suggest something regarding this?
>
> Regards,
> Saurabh
>

Yes there is a known leak. Maybe this will help:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/12697.patch

Amos

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