[squid-users] Maximum Resident Size

On some machines, this number after service startup is small. Whereas
others are larger than the total machine memory. I'm using exactly the
same squid.conf when making the comparison.

How is this number determined? Is this a maximum that the Squid
process will potentially grow to?

I have one machine where the squid process grows progressively, and
eventually starts swapping and requiring a service restart when Squid
process RSS nears machine memory. My cache_mem has been reduced to
1/16th of machine memory, so this is not the cause of the problem.
I've not used any of the *memory* parameters. What could contribute to
the memory growth? client_http.requests goes up to about 150. Machine
memory is 8GB.

I have read the wiki on memory but it seems dated (Squid-1.1?). How
relevant is Maximum Resident Size?

I'm using 3.1.22.
Received on Sun Jan 13 2013 - 12:06:55 MST