Re: [squid-users] Squid memory usage

On 8/3/2012 3:16 PM, Hugo Deprez wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> I am running squid3 on Linux Debian squeeze.(3.1.6).
>
> I encounter a suddenly a high memory usage on my virtual machine don't
> really know why.
> Looking at the cacti memory graph is showing a memory jump from 1.5 Gb
> to 4GB and then ther server started to swap.
>
> For information the virtual machine has 4Gb of RAM.
>
> Here is the settings of squid.conf :
>
> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 100 16 256
> cache_mem 100 MB
>
> hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
> refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
> refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
> refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
> refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
>
>
> my squid3 process is using: 81% of my RAM. So arround 3,2Gb of memory.
>
> proxy 25889 0.6 81.1 3937744 3299616 ? S Aug02 9:34
> (squid) -YC -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf
>
> I am currently having arround 50 users using it.
>
>
> I did have a look at the FAQ
> (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#how-much-ram), but I
> didn't find any tips for my situation in it.
>
>
> Have you got any idea ? How can I troubleshoot this ?
>
> Thanks !
>
is this a replicated VM by any chance?

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