RE: [squid-users] Squid problem regarding memory usage

 
>
> Im running a squid server with amd athlon xp 2500+,
> 512MB of RAM and a 40GB harddisk. I allocated 20MB for
> cache_mem and 6GB for a single cache_dir. Firstly,the
> server is working great and the performance is good.
> However, lately, the performance seems to drop. Users
> complaining about slow web access. Other apps such as
> chatting services runs great but not web browsing.
> Then i did look into cachemgr and this is what shown
> under General Runtime Information :-
>
> Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
> Total space in arena: 15752 KB
> ...
> ...
> Total in use: 15994 KB 99%
> Total free: 89 KB 1%
> Total size: 16084 KB
>
>
> Is it normal to have total_in_use size bigger than
> Total_Space_In_Arena ?? I`d really appreciate if
> there's any reply regarding this question.Thanks a
> lot!
>
 
  It's not normal; bugs in malloc related libs maybe.
  
  Also : - Squid version ?
         - Platform/OS/version ?

  M.
Received on Thu Jul 29 2004 - 02:26:08 MDT