Re: [squid-users] Memory usage of squid parent proces the same as child

Tomek K. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have squid server running on Linux Debian Etch. Squid Version 2.6.STABLE5

First step is upgrade to the latest 2.6 STABLE17 from unstable. There
have been a lot of improvements made since stable5.

Amos

> is using LDAP group authentication based on Win2003 domain controller.
> The hardware configuration is:
> IBM xSeries 336 with one XEON 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 2xHDD SCSI 146GB 15K with
> RAID 1
>
> The problem is that the squid restarts after memory leak. I tried to find
> the reason, and I found that the reason is to big memory consumption by
> squid parent proces which is almost the same as child memory usage which is
> the main cache proces.
>
>
> Below is the top informations about memory usage:
> top - 22:41:04 up 1 day, 3:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem: 3502208k total, 3360836k used, 141372k free, 118448k buffers
> Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 165420k cached
>
> %MEM PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND
> 42.9 4181 proxy 15 0 1469m 1.4g 1512 S 0 0:11.81 squid
> 42.5 4175 root 25 0 1456m 1.4g 404 S 0 0:00.10 squid
>
> This are the main squid.conf entries:
> http_port 8080
> icp_port 0
> auth_param basic children 50
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 minute
>
>
> no_cache deny QUERY
>
> cache_mem 48 MB
> maximum_object_size 900000 KB
>
> minimum_object_size 0 KB
>
> request_body_max_size 900000 KB
>
> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 8192 128 256
> cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA
> cache_store_log none
> access_log /var/log/squid/access.log
>
> forwarded_for off
>
> delay_pools 1
> delay_class 1 1
> delay_access 1 allow all
> delay_parameters 1 74000/74000
>
>
> Is this memory usage by parent proces right ?
> How can I change it ?
>
> Regards
> Tomasz Krawczyk
>
>

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Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17 or 3.0STABLE1.
There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.