--- Mark Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>
Squid would usually use 3 times the amount specified
in cache_mem, in your case about 192MB. But usually
squid uses more than this value. Squid usually slows
down when its using more memory than it should. Try to
determine on the average at how many days squid slows
down, and put it in your cron to restart squid. Try
kernel 2.4 or FreeBSD, it has better memory
management.
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