Re: [squid-users] Problem with increasing memory utilization

Try squid-2.7; a bunch of delay pools related fixes went into there
which should be fix the reconfigure case?

Adrian

2008/7/22 Leandro Oliveira da Silva <leandro_at_webconnection.com.br>:
> Hello all!
>
> I have a strange problem with squid. I use squid not for caching, but for
> control with squidGuard, manage two links using tcp_outgoing_address and
> control traffic with delay_pool.
> Because of a known bug in 2.6 versions I couldn't use the delay pool since I
> use reconfigure from time to time and in 3.0 it's working fine, but every
> time I use reconfigure the "Total memory in arena" increases 300k aprox
> (also noted using top and ps), in a few hours the memory is all used up and
> it stars to use swap. I have servers using 3.0STABLE1, stable5 and stable8
> and it happens in all of them.
> The main reason for using the squid -k reconfigure is that I have users
> logging in and out all day long (and night sometimes) and I need reload the
> squidguard. I've read in this list that I can use just squid –k rotate, but
> sometimes I need to reconfigure because of changes in the internet address
> (for tcp_outgoing_address) or rules for delay_pool.
> My question is why the memory increases in every reconfigure? I've already
> disables delay_pools, tcp_outgoing_address, squidguard and any created acls
> and the problem persists.
> Below is my squid.conf and spec of one of my server. Any help is
> appreciate.
>
> Thanks,
> Leandro
>
> CPU model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (some servers with Dual
> Core)
> Memory: 1GB (some servers with 2GB)
> Kernel: 2.6.25 (som with 2.6.23)
> Linux: Mandriva 2008.0
>
> [root_at_localhost ~]# squidclient mgr:info | grep 'in arena'
> Total space in arena: 122608 KB
> [root_at_localhost ~]# squid –k reconfigure
> [root_at_localhost ~]# squidclient mgr:info | grep 'in arena';date
> Total space in arena: 123004 KB
>
> Squid.conf:
>
> auth_param basic children 5
> auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
> auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
> auth_param basic casesensitive off
> acl manager proto cache_object
> acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
> acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
> acl SSL_ports port 443
> acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
> acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
> acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
> acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
> acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
> acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
> acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
> acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
> acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
> acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
> http_access allow manager localhost
> http_access deny manager
> http_access deny !Safe_ports
> http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
> http_access allow all
> http_reply_access allow all
> icp_access allow all
> htcp_access allow all
> http_port 3128 transparent
> hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
> cache_dir null /dev/null
> access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
> cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log
> cache_store_log /var/log/squid/store.log
> pid_filename /var/run/squid.pid
> acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
> cache deny QUERY
> refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
> refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
> refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
> cache_effective_user squid
> cache_effective_group squid
> visible_hostname 10.125.123.1
> icp_port 0
> htcp_port 0
> no_cache deny all
> dns_nameservers 127.0.0.1
> hosts_file none
> coredump_dir /var/cache
>
>
>
> squid –v:
> Squid Cache: Version 3.0.STABLE8
> configure options: '--target' 'i586-mandriva-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix='
> '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/sbin'
> '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--datadir=/usr/share'
> '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib'
> '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid' '--localstatedir=/var'
> '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
> '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include'
> '--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib' '--enable-icap-support' '--enable-poll'
> '--enable-snmp' '--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru'
> '--enable-storeio=aufs,coss,diskd,ufs,null' '--enable-useragent-log'
> '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost'
> '--enable-truncate' '--enable-underscores' '--enable-carp'
> '--enable-async-io' '--enable-htcp' '--enable-delay-pools'
> '--enable-linux-netfilter' '--enable-ssl' '--enable-arp-acl'
> '--enable-auth=basic,digest,ntlm'
> '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=multi-domain-NTLM,getpwnam,YP,SMB,PAM,NCSA,MSNT
> ,LDAP' '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB,fakeauth,no_check'
> '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=password'
> '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,ldap_group,unix_group,wbinfo_group'
> '--disable-follow-x-forwarded-for' '--with-pthreads'
> '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-ident-lookups'
> 'target_alias=i586-mandriva-linux-gnu'
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 22 2008 - 16:38:48 MDT