Re: cache_mem and memory usage

On Wednesday 19 March 97, at 11 h 42, the keyboard of HJ Hwang
<jung@jean.kotel.co.kr> wrote:

> Cache information for squid:
> Storage Swap size: 16996 MB
> Storage Mem size: 86993 KB
...
> Storage mem size means the used part of cache_mem ?

Yes.
 
> Why memory usage of mallinfo() is much greter than cache_mem ?

Because Squid uses memory for many other things. cache_mem does NOT set
an upper bound on memory consumption.

See the detail of Squid's use of memory ("Accounted Memory Usage") at the
end of cache manager's "info".
Received on Fri Mar 21 1997 - 03:07:29 MST