On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 00:06 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Daniel Latshaw wrote: > > > When i start squid, there is a process owned by root that is using 376mb > > ram. there is also a process owned by squid starting at 377mb ram and > > growing to 723mb ram and beyond. > > Do you have any very large ACLs defined? Yes, that is exactly what the problem is. I was using the sa-blacklist-current-domains list. the list itself is only ~2mb or so. > > Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): > > Total in use: 969957 KB 100% > > Memory accounted for: > > Total accounted: 7415 KB > > This does not look good... > It is down to using about 8mb now. > > Which exact Squid version is this? > i was using the 2.5.stable6 that comes with fedora core 3. i have since removed that and am using 2.5.stable11 from fedora's site. when i reinstalled to the newer version i added on item at a time from my old squid.conf and restarted squid to see where my problem was. i don't believe it was in the 2.5.6 version, it was my acl. as i added that acl back in, my memory usage jumped back to the 1GB mark. Any idea why that particular acl would do that? Thanks! dan > Regards > Henrik >