On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Benjam�n Vay� wrote:

> Hi Henrik:
> 
> The 'top' exit is :
> 
> Mem:  2064424k av, 1928044k used,  136380k free,       0k shrd,  346912k buff
>                    1483804k actv,   84376k in_d,   42148k in_c
> Swap: 4096564k av,   22324k used, 4074240k free                 1007124k cached
> 
> PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
> 2497 squid     15   0  381M 367M   604 S     0.0 18.2  44:26   0 squid

Ok. some simple math on the above figures:

1928044k - 346912k - 367M = 1178M used by something else than Squid and 
the OS buffers... I would suggest you start looking who is using all this 
memory as it is not your Squid.

> Actually, the squid is running but dont receives any queries because I stopped
> it. In spite of that, squid still spends 18,2% of memory.

See the Squid FAQ chapter on memory usage. This explains well how and why 
Squid uses memory.

As I have very recently said on the suqid-users mailinglist the size of
Squid should basically never ever decrease, or increase over a long time.
The size should stabilize at a certain size after some use at peak
workload.

Regards
Henrik

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