Dear All, I have problem with my squid server which show high memory utilization, am not sure if its normal or it has some problem, please advice to solve this issue and how can I reduce the memory utilization, the server should run squid only, no other process should be up, here some statistics that could be useful: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1009 1000 9 0 424 237 -/+ buffers/cache: 338 671 Swap: 1992 17 1974 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2533 root 15 0 21072 1732 12m S 0.5 0.2 69:24.90 X 28762 squid 15 0 280m 276m 2196 S 0.5 27.4 10:41.09 squid 30140 root 16 0 3500 936 1664 R 0.5 0.1 0:00.01 top 1 root 16 0 3300 548 1408 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.23 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.26 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.66 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.27 migration/1 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.83 ksoftirqd/1 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 8 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 9 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 27 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 28 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1 38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 39 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.76 pdflush 41 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 Thanks & best regards, ---------------------------------------------------- Mohammed Alterkawi.