[plug] Memory Overflow

[Mark Hernandez]

It's been the third time I rebooted my Proxy server since last Thursday, coz of it's very slow service I used TOP to determine the memory usage. It filled up my 256 Mb memory and overflowed to 140/256 Mb of swap space. cache_mem in the squid.conf is 64 Mb. I have more than 150 users using this Proxy server.   Question: 1.) How could I determine memory usage other than TOP? 2.) Why does this Server used up a lot of memory? Is squid related to the matter? 3.) How could I prevent this "memory overflow" from happening again?   TIA for the usual support.   mark