On 9/4/05, sk <suresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Why is it that the cache manager shows negative values in runtime > info.(squid 2.5.10 on FC4 X86-64) > We have 4Gb total Ram. > > > Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): > Total space in arena: -2001896 KB > Ordinary blocks: -2003111 KB 168 blks > Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks > Holding blocks: 13620 KB 10 blks > Free Small blocks: 0 KB > Free Ordinary blocks: 1214 KB > Total in use: -1989491 KB 100% > Total free: 1214 KB 0% > Total size: -1988276 KB > Memory accounted for: > Total accounted: 1878417 KB > memPoolAlloc calls: 1903784217 > memPoolFree calls: 1878036540 > > This is what top says about squid. > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ P COMMAND > 11560 squid 15 0 2566m 2.1g 1632 S 7.9 54.2 1240:28 1 squid > > Pls help. > The SQUID process is larger then 2Gb. Since , probably for these values a 32-int is used, the values get wrapped, hence you are seeing these negative values. M.