Thanks Adrian, I'll give them a shot. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:48 PM To: Dave Rhodes Cc: Henrik Nordstrom; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oom-killer and Squid On Fri, Mar 09, 2007, Dave Rhodes wrote: > Henrik, > Sorry for the late reply, I've changed the cache_mem to 250MB and I am > monitoring the growth. The server does have 6GB of RAM. The swap is > small based on SuSE recommendations but I can add swap if necessary. > > Last night the squid proc grew to over 2GB so I lowered the cache_mem > and restarted squid to free the 2GB. The current size is 765MB and > I'm hoping it will level off at just over 1GB. If it continues to > grow beyond 2GB then I'm guessing it's the malloc issue. > > "dlmalloc" isn't an option, as I understand it, as it is limited to > 2GB. Know of any good 64bit compatible mallocs? linux libc malloc isn't bad. The google malloc seems 64 bit happy. Adrian
