Re: [squid-users] Help: all of a sudden, squid hogging all memory & running out of swap

Is there any hints looking at the cachemgr "Memory utilization" page?

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid develooper

On Thursday 27 December 2001 21.19, Drenning Bruce wrote:
> version 2.3STABLE4 on RedHat 7.1
>
> I've had a nice, stable config for several months. My cache (limited to
> 3GB) is on it's own partition ( 4.9 GB) using RieserFS. I began to get
> complaints of slowness accessing the Internet today. I looked and noticed
> my server was almost out of swap space (256 MB RAM, 512 MB swap). The
> culprit was squid. I stopped & restarted squid, but it as soon as it
> restarted, it began rapidly eating up all the memory as I write. Under
> normal circumstances, this server hardly uses any swap & squid uses 30 -
> 35% of RAM. Today, squid is using 70% of RAM & over 220 MB of swap (&
> growing) is used. What the heck happened? Has something become corrupt in
> the cache and caused this? Any advice appreciated.

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