[squid-users] Worried Mallinfo

> This is a common problem, or more to the point, a common disguise. It
> usually is Linux taking up all your RAM, not Squid. Linux will after a
> while, consume every bit of RAM you have just for the sake of it, but
> usually it will give it up as more RAM is needed for other applications.
> Linux isn't actually using your RAM, but hogging it for the sake of it.
> Also, just check with "free" to see that all your additional RAM was
> actually accepted by Linux, or your particular distribution. Some older
> distributions have a maximum RAM size unless you specifically tell it
> otherwise.
>
> John McGill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Mckellar" <benm@hotline.net.au>
> To: "Squid-Users@Squid-Cache. Org" <squid-users@ircache.net>
> Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 5:42
> Subject: [squid-users] Worried Mallinfo
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I am a little worried at the following configuration viewed throught
> > cachemgr.cgi .
> >
> > Particularly due to the fact I just put in an additional 384MB RAM to
make
> a
> > total of 512MB RAM. Yet why do I still see the following result of 105%
> > memory in use ?
> >
> > I have 512MB RAM
> > squid proccess is approximately 99MB
> > cache_mem is default 8MB
> >
> >
> > --General Runtime Information
> >
> > Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
> > Total space in arena: 95781 KB
> > Ordinary blocks: 95700 KB 92 blks
> > Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
> > Holding blocks: 5076 KB 4 blks
> > Free Small blocks: 0 KB
> > Free Ordinary blocks: 81 KB
> > Total in use: 100776 KB 105%
> > Total free: 81 KB 0%
> >
> >
> > help or suggestions apprecaited.
> >
> > Thanx
> >
> >
> > -Ben
> >
>
Received on Fri Mar 23 2001 - 02:42:35 MST