Tushar Gupta wrote: > > > Hi, > > We are using squid for caching, with SCSI disk and 512 MB RAM. The > cache_mem setting in squid.conf is 64 MB. After running for several > hours total free RAM (as seen by top command) reduces to few kilobytes > and server response time increases (CPU idle cycles also go to zero), > and we need to reboot the server. Though as percentage of total CPU > usage squid is usually taking around 15-30%CPU and percentage of RAM as > 12-15%MEM . After rebooting the server would again run fine for several > hours say half a day, and then RAM would gradually get consumed again. > > It is Linux 7.1 , Kernel 2.4.2-2 on i686 (PII 350 Mhz), squid version > 2.3.stable4. Server also has other services like DNS/qmail but they > take negligible CPU/RAM >
What is the total size of your cache dirs as configured in squid.conf ? Check the FAQ on this issue, concerning the resulting mem. usage of SQUID. Or else reduce cache_mem to 8Mb, see whether this problem remains. You may want to upgrade to squid 2.5 on the long run M. > Any suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks > Tushar -- 'Time is a consequence of Matter thus General Relativity is a direct consequence of QM (M.E. Mar 2002)
