Re: [squid-users] squid problem on redhat 7.1

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:07:02 +0100

Simon White wrote:
>
> On 09-Mar-02 at 06:06, Prem's inspired musing was thus :
> > --> Squid server responce decreases over period of time.. come back to
> > normal sfter restart..(Squid server is running linux on PIII / 128MB and 4
> > GB of cache configured in squid..so far used 800 MB
>
> I don't remember exact figures, but only 128Mb with a cache of 4Gb is not
> enough. The more cache you have on disk, the more memory is required.

And also make sure you are using iptables to intercept the traffic, not
ipchains.

The ipchains emulation in Linux-2.4 is broken in almost all kernel
versions until not too long ago, causing a quite noticeable memory leak.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 06:13:15 MST

This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Tue Dec 09 2003 - 17:07:06 MST