Re: [squid-users] memory leaks

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:07:43 -0800

Edvard Chitro wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>News from my squid box.
>
>I have changed fs from reiserfs to ext2 if you remember (due to the
>suspect that it eats RAM).
>And after cache dir is filled up ~95% I still get 300 MB of RAM gone
>again....
>
>It is a real mystery for me where the hell all RAM has gone, but I suspect
>squid. Because when squid was turned off I had ~ 350 RAM in the buffers
>and cache ... and now I have only:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 516312 510936 5376 0 17984 95408
>-/+ buffers/cache: 397544 118768
>Swap: 248968 0 248968
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>
>Regards,
>Edvard Chitro
>
>
>
Are you running any kind of software RAID? The Linux kernel has had a
few problems with memory leaks and RAID
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/28/4 for one such example). The symptoms
sound eerily familiar.

Chris
Received on Thu May 25 2006 - 14:08:12 MDT

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