Re: [squid-users] memory utilisation

Ok...So I misread the top. It's 6.4MB of swap used. Probably not a big
deal. But if Squid is among the processes having bits swapped out,
you're still in for trouble. (But a 91MB Squid process size isn't all
that big.)

Joe Cooper wrote:

> That's 64MB of swap used in your top output. Squid is taking 94MB,
> which seems about normal for a Squid with 8GB of cachedir running diskd
> (why diskd on Linux? it's a less effective alternative to asyncio--but
> if memory is a concern, don't use either). Something else is using a
> large plot of memory on the system as well, though it's not in your four
> lines of top ouput. If your box is being used primarily for Squid (and
> I recommend it, since you are running an ISP through it), then you
> should remove all other memory eating programs. If Frox is what is
> taking up the rest of the memory, then you should probably remove it or
> add more memory. Running Squid on a box that is going into swap memory
> is not effective, and will be slow (as you've reported your Squid is
> several times).

> Edward wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I have a minor problem here.
>>
>> I am running Squid 2.4 up to 20th of this month, Linux 2.2.17, 192MB,
>> 2 9GB
>> UW SCSI (part 4GB each) and the OS and swapfile on an IDE hard drive.
>>
>> Cache drive is running diskd
>>
>> After a day or so, my squid w/ cache_mem =8 goes to 64Mb of memory usage.
>>
>> Here is the TOP command:
>>
>> 10:12am up 23:30, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.26, 0.21
>> 73 processes: 61 sleeping, 3 running, 8 zombie, 1 stopped
>> CPU states: 8.5% user, 16.8% system, 0.0% nice, 74.6% idle
>> Mem: 191684K av, 188572K used, 3112K free, 24988K shrd, 39236K
>> buff
>> Swap: 40120K av, 6432K used, 33688K free 27384K
>> cached
>>
>> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
>> 992 squid 20 0 94196 91M 3188 R 24.4 49.1 520:35 squid
>> 8321 root 2 0 1040 1040 816 R 0.7 0.5 0:01 top
>> 994 squid 0 0 1328 1328 748 S 0.1 0.6 0:38 diskd
>> 997 squid 0 0 1328 1328 748 S 0.1 0.6 0:14 diskd
>>
>> I am also using FROX for FTP caching.
>>
>> What can I do to reduce my memory usage since I am using the GNU
>> Malloc with
>> seem to work better than the dmalloc the comes with squid.?
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Edward Millington
>> (Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
>> Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
>> Carlisle House
>> Hincks Street
>> Bridgetown
>> Barbados
>> 1-246-430-7435
>> Fax : 1-246-431-0170
>> www.cariaccess.com
>
>
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> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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