[squid-users] memory utilisation

Hi everyone!

I have a minor problem here.

I am running Squid 2.4 up to 20th of this month, Linux 2.2.17, 192MB, 2 9GB
UW SCSI (part 4GB each) and the OS and swapfile on an IDE hard drive.

Cache drive is running diskd

After a day or so, my squid w/ cache_mem =8 goes to 64Mb of memory usage.

Here is the TOP command:

 10:12am up 23:30, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.26, 0.21
73 processes: 61 sleeping, 3 running, 8 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: 8.5% user, 16.8% system, 0.0% nice, 74.6% idle
Mem: 191684K av, 188572K used, 3112K free, 24988K shrd, 39236K
buff
Swap: 40120K av, 6432K used, 33688K free 27384K
cached

    PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
  992 squid 20 0 94196 91M 3188 R 24.4 49.1 520:35 squid
 8321 root 2 0 1040 1040 816 R 0.7 0.5 0:01 top
  994 squid 0 0 1328 1328 748 S 0.1 0.6 0:38 diskd
  997 squid 0 0 1328 1328 748 S 0.1 0.6 0:14 diskd

I am also using FROX for FTP caching.

What can I do to reduce my memory usage since I am using the GNU Malloc with
seem to work better than the dmalloc the comes with squid.?

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Edward Millington
(Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
Carlisle House
Hincks Street
Bridgetown
Barbados
1-246-430-7435
Fax : 1-246-431-0170
www.cariaccess.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
To: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Web Admin

> Oh...That's wu-ftpd.
>
> So...what does that have to do with frox and transparent proxying of
> ftp? If you want to be able to access the local ftp server on port 21,
> just move the proxy over to another port, and redirect traffic to it,
> just like you do with Squid. (Ought to work...but then I'm not familiar
> with frox.)
>
> However, I would just as quickly recommend you remove wu-ftpd, and use
> ssh tools for doing file transfers to and from your proxy box. No
> reason to leave ftpd on there at all, if it is a dedicated proxy system.
> (Besides, wu-ftpd is notoriously insecure.)
>
> Edward wrote:
>
> > redhat built in ftp server.
> >
> > That would be great for squid.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Edward Millington
> > (Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
> > Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
> > Carlisle House
> > Hincks Street
> > Bridgetown
> > Barbados
> > 1-246-430-7435
> > Fax : 1-246-431-0170
> > www.cariaccess.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> > To: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 9:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: Web Admin
> >
> >
> >
> >> What is redhat ftp?
> >>
> >> I'm not terribly familiar with Frox. I only know of it in a peripheral
> >> way. We do not ship systems with it (and I've done very little
research
> >> on it). I'm pushing for Squid to contain transparent FTP
> >> functionality...so not pursuing alternatives.
> >>
> >> Edward wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> With this install joe, I will have some problems with redhat ftp.
> >>>
> >>> If I redirect info to port 21 on the caching machine, will redhat ftp
> >>
> > pick
> >
> >>> it up?
> >>>
> >>> Would I still be able to ftp to redhat ftp?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you very much.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> Edward Millington
> >>> (Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
> >>> Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
> >>> Carlisle House
> >>> Hincks Street
> >>> Bridgetown
> >>> Barbados
> >>> 1-246-430-7435
> >>> Fax : 1-246-431-0170
> >>> www.cariaccess.com
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> >>> To: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>
> >>> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:42 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: Web Admin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Not yet. Henrik is working on it, I think. So I would expect
> >>>
> > something
> >
> >>>> before too long.
> >>>>
> >>>> Until then, you might take a look at Frox if you /must/ have
> >>>
> > transparent
> >
> >>>> FTP caching now. (Frox links to Squid for caching ftp objects.)
> >>>>
> >>>> Edward wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi Joe!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Happy Easter.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there anyway that I can transparently proxy ftp like http using
> >>>>
> > wget
> >
> >>> with
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> squid?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thank you very much.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Edward Millington
> >>>>> (Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
> >>>>> Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
> >>>>> Carlisle House
> >>>>> Hincks Street
> >>>>> Bridgetown
> >>>>> Barbados
> >>>>> 1-246-430-7435
> >>>>> Fax : 1-246-431-0170
> >>>>> www.cariaccess.com
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> >>>>> To: "Edward" <edward@cariaccess.com>
> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 6:46 PM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: Web Admin
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Yes. You'll have to edit two files...the file that actually
presents
> >>>>>> the options (something like edit_cache.cgi), and the file that is
> >>>>>
> >>> called
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>> when you save your changes (something like save_cache.cgi)...I
> >>>>>
> > believe
> >
> >>>>>> those are the files you'll be editing, anyway. Though I'm not
> >>>>>
> > looking
> >
> >>>>>> at it at the moment.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It's a design requirement of coding web based applications to have
> >>>>>> various 'states' and a file or routine that answers for each of
those
> >>>>>> states (in this case, an 'editing' state and a 'saving' state).
It's
> >>>>>> possible to do this all in a single file with separate routines
that
> >>>>>
> >>> get
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>> called based on the 'state' (and many small web applications do
so),
> >>>>>
> >>> but
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>> for something as large and complicated as Webmin, it makes more
sense
> >>>>>
> >>> to
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>> divide it out into individual files. It makes modifying the code
> >>>>>
> > very
> >
> >>>>>> very easy, even for someone with little or no real programming
> >>>>>> experience (and it's a testament to Jamie's foresight that Webmin
is
> >>>>>> laid out so nicely for us occasional hackers who want to tackle
small
> >>>>>> pieces for very specific purposes).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Edward wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Ok.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am now trying to sort out the save info.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> After clicking on save, the info is still defaulting with a -1.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thank you very much.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Edward Millington
> >>>>>>> (Network Administrator & Senior Technical Support Technician)
> >>>>>>> Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
> >>>>>>> Carlisle House
> >>>>>>> Hincks Street
> >>>>>>> Bridgetown
> >>>>>>> Barbados
> >>>>>>> 1-246-430-7435
> >>>>>>> Fax : 1-246-431-0170
> >>>>>>> www.cariaccess.com
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> >>>>>> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> >>>>>> http://www.swelltech.com
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> >>>> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> >>>> http://www.swelltech.com
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> --
> >> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> >> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> >> http://www.swelltech.com
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
>
> --
> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> http://www.swelltech.com
>
>
Received on Sat Apr 21 2001 - 08:15:49 MDT