hmm i'll check tomorrow, but I am fairly certain that I am on the
latest kernel via the RHN support site for RH EL5
I was on Squid v2.6stablexx, which is the latest rpm available by
RedHat and didn't have any issues. I upgraded hoping solve my
persistant tcp_miss for a couple of sites
cheers
Ivan
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Ivan . wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Had this running on a RedHat EL5 64bit OS running Squid v3.0.STABLE16
>> for about 3 days, with 8GB of memory. Slowly but surely "top" shows
>> the availble memory dropping down to 500MB, which concerned me a great
>> deal.
>>
>> I am not caching, using the cache_dir null directive, so not sure what
>> is going on other a memory leak. Restarting the squid process didn't
>> help, so I bounced the box and low and behold available memory is
>> around 7GB.
>
> Um ... Restarting Squid drops all the memory it has allocated, whether
> leaked or not. Same as killing the process.
>
> This sounds very much like something I saw back in the 2.6.31 kernel last
> year. Any app that used a lot of memory or connections slowly (relative)
> leaked RAM into the kernel space somehow. Only a system restart or kernel
> upgrade to 2.6.32 fixed it here.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1
>
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