> tis 2006-05-16 klockan 12:14 +0300 skrev Edvard Chitro: > >> When I start the sistem (without starting squid) only 37 MB of ram gets >> used. And usage is constant, no matter how long box is up. After a week >> it >> still has 37 Mb used and ~400 MB free. > > What a waste! It's not a waste it for squid which eats it all and asks for more. > >> But if I start squid and let it run, then after ~36 hours I have only 92 >> Mb free ... and after 7-30 days I get ether box lockup because out of >> memory or squid becomes zombie and locks up. The most interesting thing >> that swap usage is always remains zero or 132 Kb. Ihave no bad sector on >> hard drives. I have checked everything. That irritates me ... > > This is just the way it should be. > >> After 40 hours of uptime I get: >> >> edska@gw:~$ free >> total used free shared buffers >> cached >> Mem: 516312 510772 5540 0 51976 >> 48876 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 409920 106392 >> Swap: 248968 0 248968 >> > > Which isn't bad. Plenty of free memory. Ca 100MB free, of which 5.5 is > available for immediate use by the kernel in interrupt context. No swap > used so the demand for memory is not high. > > But still there is a bit of mystery. You said the system was only using > 60 MB of RAM before you started Squid. Your Squid is using another 70MB. > But there is now 410MB in use.. That is the point ... I can;t figure our whe all the memory dissapears... If you look at free output ... "buffers + cache" not eq "used" 51976 + 48876 not eq 409920 So something have eaten 309068 Kb > >> Last time squid died with something like this in the logs: >> May 14 23:41:09 gw kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at >> virtual address 30303098 > > This is a kernel bug. From the trace it looks like a reiserfs bug.. > > Regards > Henrik >
