> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel H. Latshaw [mailto:dlatshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:31 AM > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Squid Memory usage on Fedora Core 3 > > > 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? > My guess would be that you were using url_regex (or dstdom_regex). The sa-blacklist-current-domains that I found looks to be a listing of domains, which would be more compatible with a dstdomain acl. You might want to adjust the list so every line starts with a period (.) for subdomain matching. > Thanks! > > dan > > > Regards > > Henrik > > > > Chris
