Re: [squid-users] Memory usage of squid parent proces the same as child

Thanks for Your reply,

As you sugested now I have squid 2.6 STABLE 17 and the memory usage is the
same as it was before:

top - 21:59:22 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.02
Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 3502208k total, 3059428k used, 442780k free, 3828k buffers
Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 32544k cached

%MEM PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND
42.9 2339 proxy 15 0 1469m 1.4g 1512 S 0 0:11.99 squid
42.5 2322 root 25 0 1456m 1.4g 396 S 0 0:00.11 squid

Amos Jeffries-2 wrote:
>
> Tomek K. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have squid server running on Linux Debian Etch. Squid Version
>> 2.6.STABLE5
>
> First step is upgrade to the latest 2.6 STABLE17 from unstable. There
> have been a lot of improvements made since stable5.
>
> Amos
>
>> is using LDAP group authentication based on Win2003 domain controller.
>> The hardware configuration is:
>> IBM xSeries 336 with one XEON 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 2xHDD SCSI 146GB 15K with
>> RAID 1
>>
>> The problem is that the squid restarts after memory leak. I tried to find
>> the reason, and I found that the reason is to big memory consumption by
>> squid parent proces which is almost the same as child memory usage which
>> is
>> the main cache proces.
>>
>>
>> Below is the top informations about memory usage:
>> top - 22:41:04 up 1 day, 3:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>> Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
>> 0.0%st
>> Mem: 3502208k total, 3360836k used, 141372k free, 118448k buffers
>> Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 165420k cached
>>
>> %MEM PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND
>> 42.9 4181 proxy 15 0 1469m 1.4g 1512 S 0 0:11.81 squid
>> 42.5 4175 root 25 0 1456m 1.4g 404 S 0 0:00.10 squid
>>
>> This are the main squid.conf entries:
>> http_port 8080
>> icp_port 0
>> auth_param basic children 50
>> auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 minute
>>
>>
>> no_cache deny QUERY
>>
>> cache_mem 48 MB
>> maximum_object_size 900000 KB
>>
>> minimum_object_size 0 KB
>>
>> request_body_max_size 900000 KB
>>
>> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 8192 128 256
>> cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA
>> cache_store_log none
>> access_log /var/log/squid/access.log
>>
>> forwarded_for off
>>
>> delay_pools 1
>> delay_class 1 1
>> delay_access 1 allow all
>> delay_parameters 1 74000/74000
>>
>>
>> Is this memory usage by parent proces right ?
>> How can I change it ?
>>
>> Regards
>> Tomasz Krawczyk
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17 or 3.0STABLE1.
> There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.
>
>
>

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