> I've seen the answer to this in the FAQ. However,
>
> 1) I am definitely not running out of swap, and
> 2) "ulimit -HSd" reports that the max segment size is set to unlimited
> by default.
>
> I am seeing this behavior consistently on a number of boxes when they
> get to a little over 1GB of resident memory usage. The amount of
> physical RAM on the boxes ranges from 4-8GB.
>
> The boxes are all running Fedora Core 4. I haven't been able to find
> much documentation on how to find what the max segment size is for a
> given running process, i.e. whether "unlimited" really means unlimited
> or whether there might be a hard cap imposed elsewhere. Any pointers?
> Or are there any known issues with Squid using >1GB of memory?
>
- Checkout :
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200310/0297.html
It contains an example C program to check, how much memory you can
allocate on your system.
Squid configure also has this option :
--enable-xmalloc-statistics
Show malloc statistics in status page
This may give additional info.
M.
