[squid-users] Re: squid 3 virtual memory usage?

Howdy again,

Fixed my own problem.
Squid was configured for way too many aufs threads.

Thanks anyway!

On 5/15/06, Dan Thomson <thomson.dan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Squid seems to be sucking up all available memory when I use aufs and
> I'm trying to figure out why. I was hoping someone on the list might
> have an answer.
>
> I've reduced the cache_mem to 200 MB (the computer running squid has 3
> gig), dropped the 2 cache_dirs down to 20 MB each and turned memory
> pooling off. Despite this, when I run squid and request one object
> (around 2 kb in size) squid's virtual memory jumps to use all
> available memory, I get a bunch of "thread creation failed" errors and
> squid dies.
>
> (top right before squid dies):
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 8066 proxy 25 0 3071m 56m 2372 R 94.2 1.5 0:02.86 squid
>
> I'm assuming this is probably related to system settings. I've
> tinkered with them a bit (both increasing and decreasing them) but so
> far, no luck. I'm running this on a i386 debian machine (stable).
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Here's a little snippet from my squid.conf:
>
> # All testing values... just trying to get something working
> cache_mem 200 MB
> cache_swap_low 90
> cache_swap_high 95
>
> maximum_object_size 10 MB
> minimum_object_size 0 KB
> maximum_object_size_in_memory 10 MB
> store_avg_object_size 20 KB
>
> memory_pools off
>
> cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid/1 20 10 10
> cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid/2 20 10 10
>
> Thanks a tonne,
>
> Dan Thomson
>
Received on Mon May 15 2006 - 16:04:52 MDT