> > Hi, > > I'm running squid stable 6 and I find that if I download the following > file: > > http://trials.macromedia.com/pub/esd/activation/DreamweaverMX2 >004-en.zip >from internet explorer but don't hit save then my mem_node count will >grow and my process memory usage will grow. This isn't limited by the >cache_mem directive and keeps growing until the full file is downloaded. >As this is a 100MB file, squid will grow by 100MB. >After the download is complete, the mem_node count will drop back down >but the memory usage stays at over 100MB. >Should I be expecting this behaviour? Should my memory usage also drop >back down after the download is complete? What is your exact squid version as reported from ? % squid -v M.