[squid-users] Memory problem

I built a new squid box on Debian 2.2 (potato) and it look like squid is
not freeing memory that was allocated to it. I noticed that the server was
running low on memory (15M left out of 640M) so I shutdown the squid
process and to my suprise it only released about 10 Meg of memory. I
started the squid process again and there was no significant jump in memory
usage so I let it run for a while. I shut it down again and it still would
not free memory like it should. I've looked through the web for answers
(including the archives of this list) and haven't found an answer to this
problem. Here are the a few relevant facts.

package info:
squid 2.2-STABLE5 debian source package, all diffs applied, compiled with
async-io and 40 threads

squid.conf info:
cache_mem = 8MB

memory info (without squid running):
squid:/# cat /proc/meminfo
         total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 662585344 636743680 25841664 8728576 491880448 108474368
Swap: 836755456 0 836755456
MemTotal: 647056 kB
MemFree: 25236 kB
MemShared: 8524 kB
Buffers: 480352 kB
Cached: 105932 kB
SwapTotal: 817144 kB
SwapFree: 817144 kB

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Jon Erickson
Received on Wed Oct 10 2001 - 12:03:02 MDT