On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Scott Phalen wrote: > Ok, I have been all over the memory FAQs and still can't figure out why my > server is consuming all it's RAM. I have 2GIG of DDR RAM and the only > service running on this server is Squid. My cache_mem is set to 64MB and > cache_dir is 10000 16 256. During peak hours my RAM is consumed very fast.
How do you measure amount or RAM used? Measuring RAM usage in a UNIX system is non-triviall as there normally should be no free ram if ths system works correctly as any free unused ram is a waste of resources (which UNIX dislikes). Regards Henrik
