HI, In that case, how to interpret my 'top ' output? I cannot find the RSS. How much memory is being used? top - 16:05:51 up 8:03, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 94 total, 1 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.8% id, 0.9% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.1% si Mem: 2075032k total, 1002500k used, 1072532k free, 152184k buffers Swap: 4096564k total, 0k used, 4096564k free, 750276k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2779 squid 15 0 20924 18m 1292 S 0.3 0.9 0:39.77 squid 2782 squid 16 0 2516 268 216 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 unlinkd --- Mark Elsen <mark.elsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > thanks. may i know how to check the memory status > of squid? how to decide > > whether squid is running out of memory? thanks a > lot. > > > > > > - Use : > > % top > > For the SQUID process , check the RSS colum > (Resident Set Size), versus > the total process size. > If the total process size is > significantly bigger then RSS, then it means that > SQUID does > not fit into available phys. mem on the system. > > M. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com