RE: [squid-users] cache_mem and large downloads

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Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE6
configure options: --enable-dependency-tracking --disable-wccp
--disable-carp --disable-icmp --disable-htcp --disable-ident-lookups
--enable-underscores --enable-err-languages=English
--enable-storeio=ufs,aufs,null --enable-async-io
--enable-auth=ntlm,basic --enable-external-acl-helpers=wbinfo_group
--enable-icap-support --with-samba-sources=../samba-3.0.6

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elsen Marc [mailto:elsen@imec.be]
> Sent: 16 February 2005 11:55
> To: Graeme Bisset; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] cache_mem and large downloads
>
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running squid stable 6 and I find that if I download the
following
> > file:
> >
> > http://trials.macromedia.com/pub/esd/activation/DreamweaverMX2
> >004-en.zip
>
> >from internet explorer but don't hit save then my mem_node count will
> >grow and my process memory usage will grow. This isn't limited by the
> >cache_mem directive and keeps growing until the full file is
downloaded.
>
> >As this is a 100MB file, squid will grow by 100MB.
>
> >After the download is complete, the mem_node count will drop back
down
> >but the memory usage stays at over 100MB.
>
> >Should I be expecting this behaviour? Should my memory usage also
drop
> >back down after the download is complete?
>
> What is your exact squid version as reported from ?
>
> % squid -v
>
> M.
Received on Wed Feb 16 2005 - 04:59:34 MST